compone, compoune, compowne

t. & i. [Lat. compo no.] [COMPOSE, COMPOUND, v.] A. Transitive: 1. To settle, to calm, to quiet, to compose. "Gif the external reverence, quhilk thou be a rest till a man, bee of sik force, that it will make thee to compone thy gesture, and refraine thy tongue."-Bruce: Eleven Serm . (1591), sig. S, 2 a. IMG:content-0408.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0410.png:[blocks in formation] That never can the present state comport , But would as often change as they change will." 2. Fig .: To involve, to be connected with, to con- "Or what respects he the negociating Matters comporting emperie and state." com-po-sant, s. [CORPOSANT.] "Presently what looked to be a compos ant IMG:content-0411.png:[blocks in formation] (b) With an object expre ed : To be the author of, to write. "Yet did my soul the sense compose And through your lips my heart did speak." Carew: An Hymenial Dialogue . (3) To dispose, to arrange, to put in a proper state or disposition. IMG:content-0412.png:[blocks in formation] "The compositor was Mr. Manning, a decent sensible man, who had composed about one-half of his [Johnson's] Dictionary, when in Mr. Strahan's printing-house."-Bos- well: Life of Johnson. picture. Often used intransitively, as when a sub- 3. Art : To arrange the component details of a ject is said to compose well, or the reverse. IMG:content-0413.png:[blocks in formation] 1863), vol. ii., p. 137. composing-rule, s. composital "Lives centrall Can frame themselves a right compos it all , While as they sitten soft in the sweet rays Or vitall vest of the lives generall." More: On the Soul , pt. ii., ch. iv., § 9. com-põş-īte, a. & s. [Lat. compos it us , pa. par. of compo no to put together, to compose.] IMG:content-0414.png:[blocks in formation] (q. v.). 3. Arith .: A term applied to such numbers as can be measured exactly by a number greater than unity, as 10 by 2 or 5; 4 is therefore the lowest composite number. 4. Shipbuilding: Constructed partly of wood and partly of iron; having an iron framework with a wooden skin. "Her Majesty's ship Grappler, 4, composite gun ve el, was inspected at Plymouth on Tuesday."-London Daily Telegraph. 5. Rail.: [COMPOSITE CARRIAGE.] B. As substantive: I. Ord. Lang.: Anything made up or compounded of several elements; a composition, a compound, a combination. IMG:content-0415.png:[blocks in formation] composite order, 8. Arch.: The last of the five orders of architecture, so called because it is a composition of parts of the other four, having the volutes of the Ionic, the quarter-round of the Tuscan and Doric, and the row of leaves of the Corinthian. composite portraits, s. pl. Photog.: Portraits obtained by combining together several others. There have been thus combined from two to nine such portraits, with the result of obtaining a normal one superior to any of those of which it was composed.