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Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [R.] Chillingworth.

A mixture; a compound. [R.] A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. Hammond.

Manure; compost. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. [Obs.] Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching. Evelyn.

The act of drinking or tippling together. [R.] The fashion of compotation. Sir W. Scott.

One who drinks with another. [R.] Pope.

sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears. Littr

A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.

That may be compounded.

One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.

See Compony.

Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.

To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.

The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, et…

To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.

Capable of being decompounded.