Compound

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, ·etc.

II. Compound ·vt To Compose; to Constitute.

III. Compound ·vt To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

IV. Compound ·vt To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

V. Compound ·vt To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

VI. Compound ·vt Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

VII. Compound ·noun 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.

VIII. Compound ·noun 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.

IX. Compound ·vt 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.

X. Compound ·vi 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.