a. [ Gr. &unr_; thorn + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Having the fruit covered with spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; extreme, highest + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) (a) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk. (b) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fatty; adipose. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + tre`pein to turn. ] (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as ampule.
Syn. -- phial, vial, ampule, ampul [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; up + &unr_; to turn. ] (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angio- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) (a) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C. (b) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. Gray.
Syn. -- angiocarpic [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anisotropic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; turn, &unr_; to turn. ] (Bot.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Resisting blows; hard. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; bread + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to an ascocarp. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; to turn. ] (Bot.) Not inverted; orthotropous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Auto- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; sprout, germ + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. brachy`s short + &unr_; stamp, form. ] (Min.) Of a short form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Bullhead, 1 (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; curved + &unr_; a turning. ] (Bot.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. t. Same as Capoch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; stem + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖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. (Med.) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decompounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Decompounding. ] [ Pref. de- (intens. in sense 1) + compound, v. t. ] 1. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. [ 1913 Webster ]

It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. de- (intens.) + compound, a. ] 1. Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A decomposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being decompounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To release from espousal or plighted faith. [ Poetic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. &unr_;lepute. ] (Zoöl.) (a) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. (b) A fresh-water fish, the burbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Espousal. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. espousailles, pl., F. épousailles, L. sponsalia, fr. sponsalis belonging to betrothal or espousal. See Espouse, and cf. Sponsal, Spousal. ] 1. The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The open espousal of his cause. Lord Orford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Espoused p. pr. & vb. n. Espousing. ] [ OF. espouser, esposer, F. épouser, L. sponsare to betroth, espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p. of spondere to promise solemnly or sacredly. Cf. Spouse. ] 1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph. Luke i. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lavinia will I make my empress, . . .
And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace. “He espoused that quarrel.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as he got out of the war. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. espousement. ] The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expounding. ] [ OE. exponen, expounen, expounden, fr. L. exponere to set out, expose, expound; ex out + ponere to put: cf. OE. expondre, expondre. See Position. ] 1. To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He expounded both his pockets. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expound this matter more fully to me. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who expounds or explains; an interpreter. [ 1913 Webster ]