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A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.

r, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. Bacon.

A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

A mixture; a compound. [R.] A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. Hammond.

o put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison.

One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.

ring the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.

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

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [Obs.] Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert. [My joys] are still confected with some fears. Stirling.

Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] Baret.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

e state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.] Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. Bentley.

Partaking of the same nature. And mix with our connatural dust. Milton.

A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid. [Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.