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Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

Thickness; density; compactness. [Obs.] The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray.

A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.

A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

Thompson. Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact. F. Burr.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

In a dense, compact manner.

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

pable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

gnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.

A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

Having a compact, bushy form.

A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.

Banded or compacted together.

A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.