n.; pl. -pos Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as : (a) A mortar made of sand and cement. (b) A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. (c) A composition for billiard balls. (d) A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. (e) A preparation used in currying leather. (f) Composition paid by a debtor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ L. componere. See Compound. ] To compose; to settle; to arrange. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A good pretense for componing peace. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F. ] See Compony. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, a. [ F. componé. ] (Her.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. componens, p. pr. of componere. See Compound, v. t. ] Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. [ 1913 Webster ]

The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A constituent part; an ingredient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Component of force (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Comported; p. pr. & vb. n. Comporting. ] [ F. comporter, LL. comportare, fr.L. comportare to bring together; com- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor. ] 1. To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The malcontented sort
That never can the present state comport. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. comport. ] Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suitable; consistent. [ Obs. ] “Some comportable method.” Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior; comport. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Goodly comportance each to other bear. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. comportatio. ] A bringing together. [ Obs. ] Bp. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. comportement. ] Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her serious and devout comportment. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Composed p. pr. & vb. n. Composing. ] [ F. composer; com- + poser to place. The sense is that of L. componere, but the origin is different. See Pose, v. t. ] 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection. Bp. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their borrowed gold composed
The calf in Oreb. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me compose
Something in verse as well as prose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The genius that composed such works as the “Standard” and “Last Supper”. B. R. Haydon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

How in safety best we may
Compose our present evils. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compose thy mind;
Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Print.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To come to terms. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate,
Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope.

-- Com*pos"ed*ly adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Mozart's ] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer. Moore (Encyc. of Mus.). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweet composers of the pensive soul. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Tending to compose or soothe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or used in, composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Composing frame (Print.), a stand for holding cases of type when in use. --
Composing rule (Print.), a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted; -- called also setting rule. --
Composing stick (Print.), an instrument usually of metal, which the compositor holds in his left hand, and in which he arranges the type in words and lines. It has one open side, and one adjustable end by means of which the length of the lines, and consequently the width of the page or column, may be determined. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See Composite. ] (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf. Compost. ] 1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Compositæ; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.. --
Composite photograph or
Composite portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. F. Galton. --
Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing. --
Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. composition, fr. L. compositio. See Composite. ] 1. The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. In specific uses: (a) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. “The constant habit of elaborate composition.” Macaulay. (b) (Fine Arts) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below. (c) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. (d) (Print.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment. [ 1913 Webster ]

View them in composition with other things. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

A composition that looks . . . like marble. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Consistency; accord; congruity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no composition in these news
That gives them credit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus we are agreed:
I crave our composition may be written. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Synthesis as opposed to analysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Composition cloth, a kind of cloth covered with a preparation making it waterproof. --
Composition deed, an agreement for composition between a debtor and several creditors. --
Composition plane (Crystallog.), the plane by which the two individuals of a twin crystal are united in their reserved positions. --
Composition of forces (Mech.), the finding of a single force (called the resultant) which shall be equal in effect to two or more given forces (called the components) when acting in given directions. Herbert. --
Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. --
Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the first and second is to the second as the sum of the third and fourth to the fourth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compositivus. ] Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., an arranger. ] 1. One who composes or sets in order. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) One who sets type and arranges it for use. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. [ R. ] Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>a. [ L. ] (Law) Sane in mind; being of sound mind, memory, and understanding. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who is compos mentis. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. com- + possible. ] Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [ R. ] Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. compost, fr. L. compositus, p. p. See Composite. ] 1. A mixture; a compound. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Agric.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. [ 1913 Webster ]

And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To manure with compost. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compositura, -postura, a joining. ] Manure; compost. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Compose. ] 1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [ in music ] and teaching. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Frame; make; temperament. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His composure must be rare indeed
Whom these things can not blemish. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose. “We seek peace and composure.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A combination; a union; a bond. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compotatio; com- + potare to drink. ] The act of drinking or tippling together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fashion of compotation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who drinks with another. [ R. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Compost. ] 1. A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears. Littré. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a bowl-shaped dish having a stem, and a base smaller than the bowl, used to serve compotes or other items, such as candies, nuts, or fruit; a compote dish. Compotes may be made of different materials, such as glass, porcelain, or silver.
Syn. -- compote dish, compotier. [ PJC ]

a compote{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Compotiers /plu>. [ F. ] A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.; a compote dish, or compote{ 2 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖n. [ Malay kompung a village. ] In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Compounding. ] [ OE. componen, compounen, L. componere, compositum; com-+ ponere to put set. The d is excrescent. See Position, and cf. Componé. ] 1. To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. [ 1913 Webster ]

Only compound me with forgotten dust. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To compose; to constitute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His pomp and all what state compounds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compound for sins they are inclined to
By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See Compound, v. t. ] Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compound addition,
subtraction,
multiplication,
division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of compound numbers. --
Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of composition. --
Compound engine (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively. --
Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether. --
Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion. --
Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction. --
Compound fracture. See Fracture. --
Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [ Eng. ] --
Compound interest. See Interest. --
Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny. --
Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk. --
Compound microscope. See Microscope. --
Compound motion. See Motion. --
Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number. --
Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column. --
Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities. --
Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical. --
Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d. --
Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe. --
Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). --
Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time. --
Compound word, a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together by a hyphen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the word “bishopric” was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same internal arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Binary compound (Chem.). See under Binary. --
Carbon compounds (Chem.). See under Carbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be compounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. combined into or constituting a chemical compound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises. “Compounders in politics.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religious houses made compounders
For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [ Eng. ] A. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of combining things.
Syn. -- combination, combining. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Her.) See Compony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being resolved into constituent elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decomposed p. pr. & vb. n. Decomposing. ] [ Cf. F. décomposer. Cf. Discompose. ] To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. [ 1913 Webster ]