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sed; conjunction; combination; adjustment. View them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.

n. When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. I. Watts.

as, a compound word. Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts. Compound addition, substraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, substraction, etc., of compound numbers. -- Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crys…

on; think; -- with of. Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. I. Watts.

is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton.

erstood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. I. Watts. Concrete number, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. -- Concrete quan…

mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.

employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson.

content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained. I. Watts. Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them. Mark xv. 15.

te; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts.

to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is. I. Watts.

no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.

l and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.

Capable of being created. [Obs.] I. Watts.

and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. Beaconsfield.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts.

se; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. I. Watts.

boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. Watts.

ved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite. "Some darling science." I. Watts. "Darling sin." Macaulay.