compound 
by means or in a manner different from that 
stipulated or required by law. it usually implies 
payment of or agreement on a grass sum less than the 
aggregate due. See composition, 8. 
4. To settle with one who has committed a 
crime, agreeing for a consideration not to prose- 
cute him. See I., 8. 5. To give out ; fail : said 
of a horse in racing. [Sporting slang.] 
compound 1 (kom'pound), a. and . [< ME. 
ciiiiipoiiHcd, pp. of comjiowieu, mix, compound: 
see the verb.] I. a. 1. Composed of two or 
more elements, parts, or ingredients; not 
simple. 
Sir, it is of manifold, and, if I may so express myself, 
compound importance. Everett, Orations, II. 235. 
2. In bot., made up of several similar parts 
aggregated into a common whole Compound 
animals, animals in which individuals, although distinct 
as regards many of the functions of life, are yet connected 
by some part of their frame so as to form a united whole. 
Such are the polyzoans and some of the aseiitians. Many of 
these animals are of a comparatively high type. See cut 
under Polyzoa. Compound archway, i tunlie ml arch. , 
a series of arches of different sizes, inclosed in an arch 
of larger dimensions. Compound axle, beam-engine, 
bolster, ether, event, etc. See the nouns. Compound 
eyes of insects. See eye. Compound flower, the 
flower of a plant of the order Composita!. See Composi- 
te. Compound fraction, fracture, fruit. See the 
nouns. Compound householder, in Great Britain, a 
householder who compounds with nis landlord for his 
rates that is, whose rates are included in his rent. 
I shall designate these inhabitants of towns by a phrase 
by which they are best known, though I am not sure that 
it is one of exact legal precision ; I shall term them com- 
pound householders. Gladstone. 
Compound interest. See interest. Compound in- 
terval, in muxic, an interval greater than an octave, as a 
ninth, a twelfth, etc. Compound larceny. See larceny. 
Compound leaf, a leaf competed of several leaflets on 
one petiole, called a common petiole or rachis. It may be 
either digitately or pinnately 
compound, and the leaflets 
may be themselves com- 
pound. Compound mea- 
sure, rhythm, time, in wm- 
sic, a rhythm in which the 
measures are made up of two 
or more groups of accents. 
A compound measure is call- 
ed duple if there are two or 
four groups, triple if there 
are three, whether the groups 
themselves are constructed 
in duple or in triple rhythm. 
Thus fj rhythm is a compound 
duple rhythm, each group 
being in triple rhythm. 
Compound microscope, 
motion, number. See the 
nouns. Compound ocel- 
lated spot, in entom., a spot with three or more circles 
surrounding a central spot or pupil of the eye. Com- 
pound pistil, an ovary consisting of two or more coales- 
cent carpels. Compound proportion. See proportion. 
Compound quantity. () In aly., a quantity con- 
sisting of several terms united by the sign + or . Thus, 
a + b c and 6 2 b are compound quantities. (6) In 
arith., a quantity which consists of more than one de- 
nomination, as 5 pounds, 6 shillings, and 9 pence, or 4 
miles, 3 furlongs, and 10 yards ; hence, the operations of 
adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing such quan- 
tities are termed compound addition, compound subtrac- 
tion, compound multiplication, and compound dioiswn. 
Compound ratio, the ratio which the product of the an- 
tecedents of two or more ratios has to the product of their 
consequents. Thus, 6 to 72 is a ratio compounded of 2 to 
6 and of 3 to 12, because ^ 3 = g x ^. In like manner the 
ratio of ab to erf is a ratio compounded of a to c and of b 
to d ; for ; = x r. Hence it follows that in any con- 
ed c d 
tinued proportion the ratio of the flrst term to the last is 
compounded of all the intermediate ratios. See ratio. 
Compound screw, 
two or more screws on 
the same axis. When 
the pitch of the re- 
spective screws varies, 
it forms a differential 
screw ; when they run in 
different directions, it is 
a right-and-left screw. 
E. H. Knight. Com- 
pound sentence, a sen- 
tence consisting of two 
or more clauses, each 
with its own subject and 
predicate : opposed to 
a simple sentence, which 
contains only a single 
clause. A compound sen- 
tence may consist of co- 
ordinate clauses, or of a principal clause and subordinate 
clauses (in which case it is called a complex sentence), or 
of both. Compound steam-engine. See steam-engine. 
Compound stem, a stem that divides into branches. 
Compound Stop, in organ-building, a stop that has 
more than one pipe to each key. Also called a mixture. 
Compound umbel, an umbel which has all its rays or 
peduncles bearing umbellules or small umbels at the top. 
See cut in next column. Compound word, in gram., a 
word made up of two or more words which retain their 
separate form and significance : thus, nouns, housetop, 
blackberry, wash-tub, pickpocket ; adjectives, full-fed, life- 
like, dark-eyed, inbred ; verbs, foresee, fiiljil ; pronouns, 
himself, whosoever ; adverbs, always, herein ; prepositions, 
into, toward. A verb is also called compound when hav- 
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ing a prefix which is not used as an independent word, as 
befall, tlisuien; and the term is sometimes.but improperly, 
applied to derivatives made by means of obvious prefix- 
es and suflixes. = Syn. 
Complex, Complicated, 
etc. See intricate. 
II. ii. 1. Some- 
thing produced by 
combining two or 
more ingredients, 
parts, or elements ; 
a combination of 
parts or principles 
forming a whole. 
History, at least in its 
state of ideal perfection, 
is a compound of poetry 
and philosophy. 
Macaulay, Hallam's 
[Const. Hist. 
Compound Umbel (Fennel). 
Pinnately Compound Leaf. 
Compound Screws. 
a, differential screw; b, right-and- 
left screw. 
Specifically 2. In gram., a compound word 
(which see, under I.). 
Many words that are really compound have lost the ap- 
pearance of compounds, and look like simple words. 
A. Bain. 
3. In chem., a compound body. 
Substances . . . produced by the union of two or more 
elements are termed compound bodies. These cwnpounds 
have in general no more resemblance in properties to the 
elements which have united to form them than a word 
has to the letters of which it is made up. 
W. A. Miller, Chemistry, 8 1. 
Binary compound. See binary. 
compound 2 (kom'pound), n. [< Malay cam- 
pong, an inclosure. According to another view, 
a corruption of Pg. eompanha, a yard or court, 
prop, a suite, company: see company, n.~\ In 
India and the East generally, a walled inclosure 
or courtyard containing a residence with the 
necessary outhouses, servants' quarters, etc. 
Oodown usurps the warehouse place ; 
Compound denotes each walled space. 
India Gazette, March 3, 1781. 
Rows of detached bungalows, standing amid flower-gar- 
dens and neatly-laid-out compounds, with English names 
on the gate-ways. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, II. 92. 
compoundable (kom-poun'da-bl), a. [< com- 
pound 1 , v., + -able.'] Capable of being com- 
pounded, in any sense of the verb. 
A penalty of not less than forty shillings or more than 
five pounds, compoundable for a term of imprisonment. 
Dickens, Uncommercial Traveller, xii. 
compounder (kom-poun'der), . One who com- 
pounds, (a) One who mixes different things or ingredi- 
ents : as, a compounder of drugs, (b) One who attempts 
to bring parties to terms of agreement, (c) One who brings 
about or enters into a compromise. [Rare.] 
Softners, sweetners, compounders, and expedient-mon- 
gers. Smft. 
(d) One who compounds with a debtor or a felon. 
Religious houses made compounders 
For th' horrid actions of the founders. 
S. Butler, Weakness and Misery of Man, 1. 27. 
(e) One at an English university who pays extraordinary 
fees for the degree he is to take. Wood. (/) One who is 
or has become a life-member of a society or an institution 
by a single gross payment in composition of all annual fees 
or dues. 
Three life compositions have been received during the 
year, but as five compounders have died during the same 
period no money has been invested. 
Anthrop. Inst. Jour., XV. 483. 
(</) [cap.] In Eng. hist., a member of one of the two sec- 
tions into which the Jacobite party divided shortly after 
the revolution. The Compounders desired a restoration, 
but demanded constitutional guarantees and a general 
amnesty. See Xoncompounder. Amicable compound- 
er, in Louisiana law, an arbitrator chosen by parties in 
dispute, whose decision cannot be reviewed by the courts. 
Grand compounder, a compounder in a university 
who pays double fees. 
compoundress (kom-poun'dres), n. [< com- 
pounder + -ess.] A female compounder. 
Compoundress of any quarrel that may intervene. 
Howell, Vocall Forrest, p. 9. 
comprador (kom-pra-dor'), . [< Pg. Sp. com- 
prador, < LL. comparator, a buyer, < L. com- 
parare, pp. comparatus, prepare, provide, fur- 
nish, buy, >Pg. Sp. comprar, furnish, buy: see 
compare'*.] 1. In Hong Kong and the treaty 
ports of China, a native agent or manager em- 
ployed by foreign business houses as an inter- 
mediary in dealing with the natives, and as a 
general adviser and factotum. The comprador 
engages and is answerable for all the native 
employees of the firm. 
Every Factory had formerly a Compradore, whose Busi- 
ness it was to buy in Provisions and other Necessarys. 
C. Lockyer, Trade in India. 
2. A store-keeper or ship-chandler in the ports 
of China and the Indian archipelago. 3. A 
steward or butler in a private family. 
comprecationt (kom-pre-ka'shon), . [< L. 
comprecatio(n-), < eompreeari, conprecari, pp. 
comprecatus, conprecatus, pray, supplicate, < 
comprehensible 
com-, together, + jirccari, pray, > ult. E. pray, 
q. v.] A praying together; united or public 
supplication or prayer. 
Hence came that form of comprecation and blessing to 
the soul of an Israelite, ..." Let his soul be in the gar- 
den of Eden." Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 134. 
comprehend (kom-pre-hend'), r. [< ME. com- 
prcnenden (also compr'cndcn, < OF.) = OF. F. Pr. 
comprenilrt! = Sp. coniprender, comprchendcr = 
Pg. comprehender =U. comprendcre, < L. compre- 
hetulerc, conprehendere, contr. comprendere (also 
written comprceliendere, comprmtdere), pp. com- 
prehensus, comprensus, grasp, lay hold of (physi- 
cally or mentally), < com-, together, + prchen- 
dere, contr. prendere, seize: see prehend, and 
cf. apprehend, deprehend, reprehend. Hence ult. 
(from L. comprendere) comprise, q. v.] I. trans. 
1. To take in, include, or embrace within a cer- 
tain scope; include, (a) To include within a certain 
extent of space or time : as, New England comprehends six 
States ; the most notable events were comprehended in the 
last ten years of the century. 
These two small cabinets do comprehend 
The sum of all the wealth that it hath pleas'd 
Adversity to leave me. 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, i. 1. 
(6) To include within limits of any kind ; especially, to in- 
clude in the constitution or nature. 
Lady inyn, in whome vertus alle 
Ar ioinede, and also comprehendide. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 44. 
There is a feith aboven alle, 
In which the trouthe is comprehended. 
Qower, Conf. Amant., II. 185. 
An art which comprehends so many several parts. 
Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting. 
One would wonder how the Poet could be so concise in 
his Description of the Six Days Works as to comprehend 
them within the bounds of an Episode. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 339. 
Members of that grand society which comprehends the 
whole human kind. Goldsmith, National Prejudice. 
(c) To include in meaning or in logical scope. 
If there be any other commandment, it is briefly compre- 
hended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neigh- 
bour as thyself. Rom. xiii. 9. 
2. To take into the mind; grasp by the under- 
standing ; possess or have in idea ; understand 
the force, nature, or character of; conceive; 
know sufficiently for a given purpose ; specifi- 
cally, to understand in one of the higher de- 
grees of completeness: as, to comprehend an 
allusion, a word, or a person. 
Resoun comprendith the thinges ymaginable and sensi- 
ble. Chaucer, Boethius. 
Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. 
Job xxxvii. 5. 
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 
For to comprehend is not to know a thing as far as I can 
know it, but to know it as far as that a thing can be 
known ; and so only God can comprehend God. 
Donne, Sermons, ii. 
3f. To take together; sum up. 
And shortly yf she shal be comprehended, 
In her ne myghte nothing been amended. 
Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, 1. 83. 
= Syn. 1. To contain. 2. Apprehend, Comprehend (gee 
apprehend), discern, perceive, see, catch. 
Il.t intrant. To take hold ; take root ; take. 
An other sail lie thaire graffyng nygh the grounde 
Is best, ther esily thai comprehende. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 105. 
A diligent husbonde enformed me, 
That doutlesse every graffying wol comprende, 
Vnterapered lyme yf with the graffes be 
Put in the plages [wounds]. 
Patladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 75. 
comprehender (kom-pre-hen'der), . One 
who comprehends ; one who understands thor- 
oughly. 
Rather apprehenders than comprehenders thereof. 
Cudworth, Intellectual System, i. B. 
comprehendible (kom-pre-hen'di-bl), a. [< 
comprehend + -ible.] Same as comprehensible. 
Bentham. 
comprehensibility (kom-prf-hen-si-bil'i-ti), . 
[= F. comprehensibilite = Sp. comprensililidad, 
comprehensibilidad = Pg. comprehensibilidade 
= It. commensibilita, < ML. *comprehensibili- 
ta(t-)s, < L. comprehensibiKs, comprehensible: 
see comprehensible and -bility.'] The character 
of being comprehensible, (a) The character of being 
such thai it may be included, (b) Intelligibility ; fitness 
for being grasped by the mind. 
comprehensible (kom-pre-hen'si-bl), a. [= F. 
comprehensible = Sp. comprensibU, comprehen- 
nible = Pg. comprehensirel = It. comprensibile, 
< L. comprehensibilis, coiiprehensibilis, < com- 
prehensun, pp. of comprehendere, comprehend: 
see comprehend.] I . Capable of being compre- 
