COMPLIMENT, To. To render naval or military honour where due.
COMPO. The monthly portion of wages paid to the ship's company.
COMPOSITION NAILS. Those which are made of mixed metal, and which, being largely used for nailing on copper sheathing, are erroneously called copper nails.
COMPOUND. A term used in India for a lawn garden, or inclosed ground round a house.
COMPRADOR [Sp]. A Chinese contractor in shipping concerns, or in purchasing present supplies.
COMPRESS. A pad of soft linen used by the surgeon for the dressing of a wound.
COMPRESSION OF THE POLES. The amount of flattening at the polar regions of a planet, by which the polar diameter is less than the equatorial.
COMPRESSOR. A mechanism generally adopted afloat for facilitating the working of the large guns recently introduced; the gun-carriage is thus compressed to its slide or platform during the recoil, and set free again by the turn of a handle for running up. It is of various forms; one of the simpler kind used to be always applied to carronade slides.
COMPRESSOR-STOPPER. A contrivance for holding the chain-cable by compression.
COMPROMISE. The mutual agreement of a party or parties at difference, to refer to arbitration, or make an end of the matter.