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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPOUNDER

n. 1. One who compounds or mixes different things.
2. One who attempts to bring parties to terms of agreement.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COMPOUNDER

COMPOUNDER 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. "Compounder 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. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

compounder

com pound er |kämˈpoundər, kəmˈpoundər, ˈkämˌpoundər kəmˈpaʊndər | noun a person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.

 

Oxford Dictionary

compounder

com |pound ¦er |kəmˈpaʊndə | noun a person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.