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To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden.

The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.

A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.

A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.

One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.

A pounded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.

The keeper of a pound.

A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.

A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.

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.

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [Obs.] He expounded both his pockets. Hudibras.

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

. See under Compound, v. t.

A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.