of the term "confound", when used in that type of sentence
structure--"confounding this and that."
You can confound a cat by hiding its mouse.
-- That's one meaning of the word, "confuse," etc.
If you were unfamiliar with the nature of houses and the nature of
locomotion, I suppose you could confound a door and a window--some
people like going in and out thru windows, and certainly we open doors
for light and air, so...
But could you confound a window? What would that *mean*?
Shannon