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ts leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet: This is the compass flower. Longefellow. -- Compass saw, a saw with a narrow blade, which will cut in a curve; -- called also fret saw and keyhole saw. -- Compass timber (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber. -- Compass window (Arch.), a circular bay window…

person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration. Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year. Shak. They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pou…

The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.

A fellow rogue. [Obs.]

A schoolfellow; a fellow-student. [R.]

Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy. A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. Warburton.

Fellowship; association; companionship. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.

ferings, steadiness in attashments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity. A fellow of plain unoined constancy. Shak. Constancy and contempt of danger. Prescott.

s, his constant ourtship, nothing gained. Dryden. Onward the constant current sweeps. Longfellow.

of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow.

Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. "Conversation with the best company." Dryden. I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.

A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. [Colloq.]

A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [R.] Shak.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

lton. Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more I use the ancient courtesies of speech. Longfellow.

Cowardly. The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. R. North.

A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.…

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.