Word Meanings - RECOMPACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To compact or join anew. "Recompact my scattered body." Donne.

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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.
• DONNEE
  Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley. That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own. Saintsbury.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• 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.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• COMPACTED
  Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• COMPACTLY
  In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
• RECOMPACT
  To compact or join anew. "Recompact my scattered body." Donne.
• COMPACTURE
  Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• SCATTERINGLY
  In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INCOMPACT; INCOMPACTED
  Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle.
• CORDONNET
  Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.
• TOSCATTER
  To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.