act of pressing or squeezing some matter, so as to set its parts nearer to each other, and make it possess less space.

Comprinnt, among bookellers, signifies a surreptitious printing of another's copy, in order to gain thereby, which is expressly contrary to statute 14 Car. II.

Compromise, a treaty, or contract, whereby two contending contending parties establish one or more arbitrators, to judge of and terminate their difference in an amicable way.