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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.

Capable of being dispensed or administered.

Quality of being dispensable.

A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

Granting dispensation.

By dispensation. Wotton.

A distributer; a dispenser. Bacon.

In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.

Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.

To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [Obs.]

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [R.]

Without cost or expense.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.