Definition of compound
- n. - In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house,
outbuildings, etc.
- v. t. - To form or make by combining different elements,
ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
- v. t. - To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts,
in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
- v. t. - To modify or change by combination with some other
thing or part; to mingle with something else.
- v. t. - To compose; to constitute.
- v. t. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.