composture

noun3

1. •
   (no longer used) Composition, makeup, formation.
2. •
   (no longer used) Compost, composted manure.

   • The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement, each thing's a thief. — 1607
3. •
   (no longer used) A kind of plaster.