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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.

A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

One of the Conirostres.

Belonging to the Conirostres.

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] F. Potter.

The red, or corn, poppy. [Written also cup-rose.]

A red nose. Shak.

Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature, transformer, etc.

A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.

St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.

Corrodibility. "Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness." Boyle.

Corrodible. Bailey.

The quality or state of being corrosible. Bailey.

The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.