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A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.

ohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.

e in the Vocabulary. -- Chain rule (Arith.), a theorem for solving numerical problems by composition of ratios, or compound proportion, by which, when several ratios of equality are given, the consequent of each being the same as the antecedent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last conseq…

, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

sion; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

Having a cheek; -- used in composition. "Rose-cheeked Adonis." Shak.

by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl.), a minute mi…

That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisibl…

A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone. Thudichum.

Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. Beau. & Fl.

A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

, consisting of hydrous silicate of alumunium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.