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sentially; accidentally. Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill.

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

ed passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; (pl.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests. A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg. J. Randolph. The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. Macaulay.

An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al (, a.

Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent. -- Cold"-heart`ed*ness, n.

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.

g and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. Hume.

solves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations. -- Standing committee. See under Standing.…

The mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture. Bacon.

pensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of sev…

act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. In specific uses:

To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

h a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.

mit to be true; to acknowledge. We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. Burke.

a man is out of conceit with his dress. -- To put [one] out conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.