'Compound householder' definitions:
Definition of 'Compound householder'
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- Householder \House"hold`er\, n. The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. [1913 Webster]
- Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Compound householder. See Compound, a. [1913 Webster] housekeep
Definition of 'Compound householder'
From: GCIDE
- Compound \Com"pound\, a. [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See Compound, v. t.] Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. [1913 Webster]
- Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of compound numbers.
- Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of composition.
- Compound engine (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively.
- Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether.
- Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion.
- Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction.
- Compound fracture. See Fracture.
- Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.]
- Compound interest. See Interest.
- Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny.
- Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.
- Compound microscope. See Microscope.
- Compound motion. See Motion.
- Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number.
- Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column.
- Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities.
- Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical.
- Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d.
- Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe.
- Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw).
- Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time.
- Compound word, a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together by a hyphen. [1913 Webster]