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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.

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

That may be compounded.

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

To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.

Capable of being decompounded.

. See under Compound, v. t.

More than decompound; divided many times.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. W…

hromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, and which gives i…

One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losi…

A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.

The compound formed by mixing different substances together.

one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.

A compound of nitrogen and boro

distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.