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

Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.

seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival. And can not brook competitors in love. Shak.

Acting in competition; competing; rival.

Compiler. [Obs.]

Serving to fulfill. Completory of ancient presignifications. Barrow.

One who composes or sets in order.

One who drinks with another. [R.] Pope.

from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.] To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.

ger. All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

One who conciliates.

fying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.

An haranguer of the people; a preacher.

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

Expressing condolence. Smart.