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One who compares.

The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them. Macaulay. The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting poi…

To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.

The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.

See Copartner. [Obs.]

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

An equal share of an inheritance.

To share. [Obs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).

A compartment. [Obs.] T. Warton.

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

the state of being copartners in any undertaking. [R.]

A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] Bailey.

In God's name; certainly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak.