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Misericorde :: Misericorde (n.) Compassion; pity; mercy.

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.

Periscii :: Periscii (n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass..

Pity :: Pity (v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.

Extent :: Extent (n.) Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity..

Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

Circle :: Circle (n.) To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

Break :: Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty..

Rosinweed :: Rosinweed (n.) The compass plant. See under Compass.

Coop :: Coop (v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in..

Begirt :: Begirt (v. t.) To encompass; to begird.

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence..

Remorse :: Remorse (n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

Pitiable :: Pitiable (a.) Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness..

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

Circumferential :: Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15', that is, about 2¡ 49'; -- called also quarter point..

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