Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM'PLICE, n. [It. complice; Fr. Port. and Sp. id.; L. complico, complicitum, complices. See Complicate and Complex.]

One who is united with another in the commission of a crime, or in an ill design; an associate or confederate in some unlawful act or design; an accomplice. The latter is now used. [See Accomplice.] – Shak. Clarendon.