\Com*pound"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
   compounder of medicines.
2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of
   agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises.
   ``Compounders in politics.'' --Burke.
3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
         Religious houses made compounders For the horrid
         actions of their founders.            --Hudibras.
4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the
   degree he is to take. [Eng.] --A. Wood.
5. (Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of
   James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of
   guarantees for the security of the civil and
   ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.