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Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.

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

ng sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

To intensify. [R.] Emerson.

Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor. As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye. R. Hooke.

Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.] Baxter.

dicraftsman; a mechanic. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume.

equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. No…

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

To compensate. [Obs.] Bacon.

or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.] One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense. Spenser.

ution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate. Beattie.

To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. -- To make up a face, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. -- To make up one's mind, to reach a mental…

Insensate. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants. May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. P. Plowman. [She] pays me with disdain. Dryden.