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To compose; to settle; to arrange. [Obs.] A good pretense for componing peace. Strype.

rm; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton.

A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose. "We seek peace and composure." Milton. When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. I. Watts.

To make concession for concilation and peace.

bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain. "If we conclude a peace." Shak.

The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," etc.

ther; allied. All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace. Shak.

or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.

The act of gaining or regaining by successful strugle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace. The Conquest (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066.

guilt or innocence. [R.] An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness. Pope.

An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.

An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to exeute the warrants of judicial offiers. Bouvier.

l obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen. Hakluyt. Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype.

Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted bachelors. Shak.

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]

war. Milton. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reson's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton.

ounty seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] -- County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.

venant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak.

s calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. Cowley.

hless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war Shak.