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The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.

An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. Grind their bones to powder small. Shak.

To fill or compact by pounding or driving. A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. Arbuthnot.

To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton.

flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

sed by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

An instrument for pounding or stamping.

Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.

d of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] Simmonds.