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.

The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

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.

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.

stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.

A computer{1}.

A mate, companion, or associate.

like a comrade; heartily friendly and congenial.

The spirit of comradeship; comradeship.

The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.

A fellow rogue.

Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.

A disciple of Comte; a positivist.

To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

Same as confidence game.

A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle.

The capital city of Guinea. Population (2000) = 1,508,000.

The pineal gland.

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

Of or pertaining to conation.

A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.

To arch over; to vault.

An arch or vault.

To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.

A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

A joint cause.

The act of making concave.

To make hollow or concave.

Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

Hollowness; concavity.

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

Concave.

To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

Capable of being concealed.

Hidden; kept from sight; secreted.

One who conceals.

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

To yield or make concession.

acknowledged. Opposite of unacknowledged.