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

A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

ngredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

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

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.…

ing to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.

The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury. [R.]

An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

, related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill.

-- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.

An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.