compt i blet (kountibl)

[A doubtful word, found only in the pa age cited, appar. for * comptable, var. of countable, in a peculiar sense: see countable, accountable.] Sensitive, or (in another view) tractable. See etymology. I am very comptible , even to the least sinister usage. Shak., T. N., i. 5. comptlyt (kompt'li), adv . Neatly. Sherwood . comptne t (kompt'nes), n . Neatne . comptoir (F. pron. kôn-twor'), n. [F., compter , count: see count1 and counter1 .] 1. A counter. -2. A counting-house. [NL., named Compt on i a (komp-to'ni-ä), n. after Henry Compton (1632-1713), Bishop of London and a patron of botany.] 1. In bot., a genus of shrubby apetalous plants, allied to Myrica and now usually included in it. The only species, C. asp len i folia, is the sweet-fern of the United States, a low shrub with highly aromatic pinnatifid leaves. It is said to be tonic and astringent, and is a domestic remedy for diarrhea. 1157 Before calamity she is a tigre ; she rends her woes, shivers them in compulsed abhorrence. Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xxiii.