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One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

A joint assessor.

A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. They fetched a compass of seven day's journey. 2 Kings iii. 9. This day I breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass. Shak.

Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.

Rounded; arched. [Obs.] She came . . . into the compassed window. Shak.

An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay.

Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. [R.] Barrow.

ful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.

The quality or state of being compassionate.

Having no compass. Knowles.

To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n. [Obs.]

, n. (Mus.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the cotrabass tuba or bombardon.

The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

See Quitch grass.

Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.