architecture, denotes the useful and graceful disposition of the whole ground-plot of an edifice, into rooms of office, and of reception or entertainment.

general, is a design composed of of several different figures, disposed with symmetry, to adorn a parterre, a ceiling, &c.

A compartment of tiles, or bricks, is an arrangement of them, of different colours, and varnished, for the decoration of a building. Compartments, in gardening, are an assemblage of beds, plats, borders, walks, &c., disposed in the most advantageous manner that the ground will admit of. Compartments, in heraldry, are otherwise called partitions.