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To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.] Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift.

One who cheapens.

Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glue…

A compendium; an epitome; a summary. A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet.

Short; compendious. [Obs.] Bailey.

To sum or collect together. [Obs.] Bp. King.

eneral principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.

The state or quality of being compendious.

heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts.

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.

Affording compensation.

One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.

Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.

To compensate. [Obs.] Bacon.

Forward on all vessels on convoy duty.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm. The Century.

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addison.