Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.

In a complex manner.

Complexity.

the act or process of making something more complex.

The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

An accomplice.

The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.

One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.

Complimentary.

Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.

Complimentary.

One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.

The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.

To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.

A plotting together.

One joined in a plot.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

To fulfill; to accomplish.

pr. p. of comply.

Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; A mortar made of sand and cement. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. A composition for billiard balls. A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. A preparation used in currying leather. Composition paid by a debtor.

See Compony.

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.

A constituent part; an ingredient.

Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.

Suitable; consistent.

Behavior; comport.

A bringing together.

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

Sane in mind; being of sound mind, memory, and understanding.

One who is compos mentis.

To come to terms.

Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.

One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

Tending to compose or soothe.

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.

That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. 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 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. The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.

Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.

One who composes or sets in order.

Belonging to the Composit/; composite.

Able to exist with another thing; consistent.

To manure with compost.

Manure; compost.

The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

The act of drinking or tippling together.

One who drinks with another.

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.

A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.; a compote dish, or compote{2}.

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.

That may be compounded.

combined into or constituting a chemical compound.

One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.

the act of combining things.

A kind of steward or agent.

A praying together.

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

able to be understood. Opposite of incomprehensible.

Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.

The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.

With great extent of signification; comprehensively.

The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.

In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.

One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge.

A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.

The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

The quality of being compressible; compressibility.

The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.

Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.

Anything which serves to compress A muscle that compresses certain parts. An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium. A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.

Compression.

The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.

The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.

To comprehend; to include.

To agree; to concur.

Joint attestation; proof.

To agree; to accord.

One who compromises.

Relating to compromise.

To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.

Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. One who belongs to the same province.

A genus of carnivorous Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation with a slender body, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. It reached a length of 30 inches when adult.

Neat; spruce.

A counter.

Accountable; responsible; sensitive.

Neatly.

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum. An older term for an adding machine.

A calculating machine; an arithmometer.

See Control.

A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.

Compulsatory.

By compulsion.

Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.

The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

By compulsion; by force.

In a compulsory manner; by force or constraint.

Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.

A pricking; stimulation.

Without compunction.

Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.

With compunction.

Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.

The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.

Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned.

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

of or pertaining to computation (definition 3).

Computation.

One who computes.

a sequence of instructions, stored in any medium, that can be interpreted and executed by a computer; -- called most frequently a program. This term is used both for the written program (a document) and for its corresponding electronic version stored or executed on the computer. See instruction; as, Version 1.0 of the program had a serious bug that caused the computer to crash frequently..

to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.