compound engine

[See COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE.] compound eyes, s. pl. 1. Entom .: Two large eyes po e ed by insects, besides which they may also have simple eyes, as may be seen in the bee, . The compound eyes consist of numerous hexagonal facets, the lenses of which combine the characters of both crystalline and vitreous humors. The house-fly has 4,000 such facets; the dragon-fly 12,000; and the little Mordella beetles 25,000. 2. Zool .: The higher Crustacea have eyes somewhat resembling those of insects. compound flowers, s. pl. Facets of the Eye of a Fly. 1. Gen.: Any kind of inflorescence in which there are florets surrounded by an involucre. 2. Spec .: The flower heads of Composite. They are small flowers collected into a head, fixed in a depre ed axis, and surrounded by an involucre of floral leaves or bracts. To the unbotanical eye, some of them, the daisy, for instance, look like simple flowers, but are taken for the white or pink-tipped white petals are the florets of the ray, IMG:content-0423.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][merged small][subsumed][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0424.jpg:[blocks in formation] compound ratio, s . The ratio of the product of the antecedents of two or more ratios to the product of the consequents: thus if 3:6::4: 12, then 12:72 is the compound ratio. compound rest, s. IMG:content-0425.png:[blocks in formation] screw, actuated by the feed; and transversely (to or from the work), by its own feed-screw. IMG:content-0426.png:[blocks in formation] small secondary spikelets. Bot.: (Of inflorescence): A spike consisting of compound spirits, s. pl . Rectified spirits to which has been added one or more flavoring ingre- dients. They are called also compounds. The chief compounds are gin, British brandy, British rum, and some grades of American whisky. Cordials and liqueurs, such as curacoa, lovage, cherry brandy, Noyeau, rum shrub, ., are also denominated com- pounds. These are prepared by adding to clean rectified spirit various e ences or oils, and sweet- ening with sugar or syrup. Sweetened compounds usually contain from 20 to 35 per cent. of proof spirit. IMG:content-0427.png:[blocks in formation] compound steam-engine, s . Mech.: A form of steam-engine originally patented by Horn blower in 1781, in which steam at a relatively greater pre ure was allowed to expand in a small to expand itself against a larger piston. Compound cylinder, and then, escaping into a larger cylinder, compound and independent compound engines. The former are those in which the cylinders are near each other, and the pistons commence their respective strokes simultaneously or nearly so, the steam expanding from one cylinder direct to the other through as small a pa age as convenient. To this cla belong most land engines, and the compound marine with cranks at about 130°. IMG:content-0428.png:[blocks in formation] Music: Times in which the bar is divided into two or more groups of notes, e. g.,, which consists of two groups of three notes;, which consists of three groups of three notes, . Compound times are cla ified as duple or triple, according to the number of groups in each bar, not according to the number of notes in each group; e . g . , is a duple duple time, . The principal accent falls on the time, a triple time, (four groups of three) a first note on each bar, and a subordinate accent on the first note of each group. IMG:content-0429.png:[blocks in formation] Gram.: A word composed of two or more words, according to certain rules. [See HYPHEN.] taken as a corruption of Port. camp an i a; Lat. com'-pound (2), s. [Etym. doubtful; by some campus a field.] A term applied in India to the yard yard or or inclosed inclosed space surrounding a dwelling. com-pound-a-ble, a. [Eng. compound ; -able.] Capable or admitting of being compounded. IMG:content-0430.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0431.png:[blocks in formation] "Of thinges that ben made more subtilly Than they can in hir lewedne e comprehend" Chaucer: C. Т. , 10,537. IMG:content-0432.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0433.png:[blocks in formation] "Compare the beauty and comprehensivene of legends on ancient coins." -Add is on : On Ancient Medals. 2. Extent, widene of range and significance. *com-prě-hěn'-sõr, s. [Lat. from com pre hens us , pa. par. of com pre hen do .] Old Divinity: One who is proficient, or who has attained to a full and perfect knowledge of the truth. "Cyprian in many places ters, calls them his is com presbyters ."-Milton: Of Reform a tion , bk. i. *com-près-by-tër-I-al, a . [Eng. com presbyter ; -ial . ] Of or pertaining to a com presbyter; common to any priest with others. Time had compre 'd the freshne of his cheek Into a narrower circle of deep red." *2. To have carnal intercourse with, to embrace. *3. To restrain, to keep down. "The adverse winds in leathern bags he brac'd, Compre 'd their force, Pope: Homer's Ody ey , bk. x., 1. 19, 20. 4. To reduce within narrower limits, to abridge, to make concise. (Applied to language, writings, .) IMG:content-0434.png:[blocks in formation] pre ure (q. v.).] The act of compre ing; compres sion, pre ure. ( Digby .) 2. Nat . Phil .: The property in virtue of which the volume of a body may be diminished by pre ure. sible bodies are gases, which may be reduced in this way to 10, 20, or even 100 times as little space as they previously occupied. If, however, very great priests."-Milton: Apol. for Smectymnuus. IMG:content-0435.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0436.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia comprint 1023 compulsatorily لة 1. To print together or at the same time. 2. To print together; it is commonly taken, in law, for the deceitful printing of another's copy, or book, to the prejudice of the rightful proprietor. ( Phillips : World of Words .)