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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.

eparate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.

A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

o be true; to acknowledge. We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. Burke.

n is out of conceit with his dress. -- To put [one] out conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.

removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.

Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. Arbuthnot.

ion of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

In company with others; unitedly; concurrently. Bp. pearson.

The act of burning different things together. [Obs.]

common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. Condensation product (Chem.), a s…

. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

A composition of different materials. [Obs.] A new confection of mold. Bacon.

A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).

ssion of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.