Defn: A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.
COMPOUND
Com"pound, n. Etym: [Malay kompund a village.]
Defn: In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
COMPOUND
Com*pound", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Compounding.] Etym: [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. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.
2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison.
3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. Only compound me with forgotten dust. Shak.
4. To compose; to constitute. [Obs.] His pomp and all what state compounds. Shak.
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. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote.
COMPOUND
Com*pound", v. i.