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Register :: Register (v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register..

Mezzo-soprano :: Mezzo-soprano (a.) Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.

Compassionateness :: Compassionateness (n.) The quality or state of being compassionate.

Compassionately :: Compassionately (adv.) In a compassionate manner; mercifully.

Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.

Compassless :: Compassless (a.) Having no compass.

Compassionate :: Compassionate (v. t.) To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

Circummure :: Circummure (v. t.) To encompass with a wall.

Clement :: Clement (a.) Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

Round :: Round (v. t.) To surround; to encircle; to encompass.

Compendious :: Compendious (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind..

Encompassment :: Encompassment (n.) The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention..

Corridor :: Corridor (n.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

Calibre :: Calibre (n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass..

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