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process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor.

Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [R.]

Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [R.]

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

To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. The controversy may easily be compromised. Fuller.

The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. Boyle.

tion of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the pol…

A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.

th an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.

al, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely. Burke.

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. [Written also corallet.]

The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.

lear water, etc. The blue crystal of the seas. Byron. Blood crystal. See under Blood. -- Compound crystal. See under Compound. -- Iceland crystal, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal, o…

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.