Word Meanings - SEMICOMPACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

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• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• COMPACTNESS
  The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.
• COMPACTION
  The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. Bacon.
• COMPACTER
  One who makes a compact.
• COMPACTEDNESS
  A state of being compact.
• INDURATION
  1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. 2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. 3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character
• COMPACTED
  Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
• COMPACTLY
  In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
• COMPACTURE
  Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.
• INDURATED
  Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith.
• INDURATE
  1. Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale. 2. Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
• INCOMPACT; INCOMPACTED
  Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle.
• SEMIINDURATED
  Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
• RECOMPACT
  To compact or join anew. "Recompact my scattered body." Donne.
• SEMICOMPACT
  Half compact; imperfectly indurated.