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Within :: Within (prep.) In the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income..

Draught :: Draught (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses..

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

Miniature :: Miniature (v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale..

Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts..

Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..

Remordency :: Remordency (n.) Remorse; compunction; compassion.

Surround :: Surround (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

Purprise :: Purprise (n.) A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.

Demicircle :: Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass..

Bleeding :: Bleeding (a.) Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion..

Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender..

Tender :: Tender (superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic..

Compassionated :: Compassionated (imp. & p. p.) of Compassionat.

Comate :: Comate (a.) Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy..

Southwest :: Southwest (n.) The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

Calipers :: Calipers (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses..

Environ :: Environ (v. t.) To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

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