Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-PART'MENT, n. [Fr. compartiment; It. compartimento.]

1. A division or separate part of a general design, as of a picture, or of a ground-plot. – Pope. Peacham.
2. A design composed of several different figures, disposed with symmetry, for ornament; as, a compartment of tiles or bricks, duly arranged, of various colors and varnished, to decorate a building. In gardening, compartments are assemblages of beds, plots, borders, walks, &c. In heraldry, a compartment is called also a partition. – Encyc.