The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; Ð applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.
That the great variety of our emotional states may be properly regarded as the result of the compounding of a relatively small number of primary or simple emotions is no new discovery.
The compounding of the primary emotions is largely, though not wholly, due to the existence of sentiments, and some of the complex emotional processes can only be generated from sentiments.
Aquae Vitae was a cordial-water well known in Bunyan's time, and much used in compounding medicines, but now almost forgotten.
Matter has been shown to be composed of elementary constituents, by thecompounding of which all its varieties are produced.
The general nature of light and heat was first briefly described: the compounding of matter from elementary atoms, and the influence of the act of combination on radiation and absorption, were considered and experimentally illustrated.
On the generation of each wave, there is an immediate compounding of the wave-motion with he river-motion.
We shall shew the manner ofcompounding 'em in our Treatise of Venereal Diseases.
In the madness of such compounded contradiction there may lurk real method, but of the contradiction and of the compounding there can be no question.
In mediaeval days, the sacred character of Vervain was still maintained, and the plant was greatly prized, and used in compounding charms and love-philtres.
Starch has been made from the root, and the French use it in compounding the cosmetic known as Cypress powder.
So long as this was the state of my own mind, I could accept the notion of self-compounding in the supernal spheres of experience no more easily than in that chapter on mind-dust I had accepted it in the lower spheres.
Suggested partly by the association of ideas, and partly by the analogy of chemical compounds, this opinion was that complex mental states are resultants of the self-compounding of simpler ones.
This will never do," said Bob, as he sat one evening in my rooms compounding his second tumbler.
This last article, which is used in place of yeast, or eggs, in compounding light cakes, can also be made at home from ley of the wood ashes, but it is mostly bought in town.
As usual the process has been modified by compounding the sensitive solution in various ways and by minor details in the manner operating.
I hope you will tell Nancy Ellen that we shall be very pleased to have her bring him to see us some evening, and if she will let me know a short time ahead I shall take great pleasure in compounding a cake and freezing custard.
That was about all we had to do, except to look after the medical stores and property, and know all there was to know about compounding medicine.
He proposed to let the whole matter drop and take the loss of the diamonds on himself; but I pointed out that this was impossible as it would practically amount to compounding a felony.
He would have liked to let the matter drop and make good the loss of the diamonds out of his own funds, but, as that would have amounted practically to compounding a felony, he had no choice but to prosecute.
Nevertheless I set to work with all earnestness, and began by compounding the requisite alloy for casting a speculum of 8 inches diameter.
Mr. Maudslay was interested in the idea I suggested; and he requested me to show him what I knew of the art of compounding the alloy called speculum metal.
In practice it has been found to be most economical to provide a high boiler pressure, and also to superheat the steam, but where it is not superheated, and a comparatively high boiler pressure is provided, compounding is resorted to.
Likewise the compounding of a vivid blue green, or reseda green, forbids either the yellow or the blue containing any appreciable admixture of red.
Prepared dyes insure safety, as the compounding and dissolving is done by formula.
All of these have limitations when used incompounding colors.
And art a rare hand at compounding it," replied Mary admiringly.
Commutating pole rotary converters for railway service are normally arranged for automatic compounding which is effected by the proper combination of series excitation and inductance between the generator and the rotary converter.
Usually it is so arranged that the compounding that can be obtained is just sufficient to overcome the alternating current line voltage drop.
On account of the low power factor caused by over compounding, and the fact that substations are customarily connected to the trolley at its nearest point without feeder resistance, over compounding is not recommended.
Accordingly with series inductance, the effect of the series coils on the field of the converter is quite similar to that of the compounding of the ordinary railway dynamo.
Compounding is desirable where the load is variable, such as is the case with interurban railway systems.
The purpose of the compounding is to compensate automatically for the drop due to line, transformer, and converter impedance.
The following table is intended to aid in the compounding of the principal hues, tints, and shades of colors used in carriage and wagon painting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compounding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
