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compound word; the result of composition. Shak. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle.

in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

k. As I confess it needs must be. Tennyson. As an actor confessed without rival to shine. Goldsmith.

Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

r Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.

base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

ontiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

for any object; to assist. These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom. Goldsmith.

d; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

wth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

A small house; a cottage or hut. The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith.

ich case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. Goldsmith.

n the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.

That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. Macualay.