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Compassed :: Compassed (imp. & p. p.) of Compas.

Dial :: Dial (n.) A miner's compass.

Sea Card :: Sea card () Mariner's card, or compass..

Compassionable :: Compassionable (a.) Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable.

Constipate :: Constipate (v. t.) To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.

Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls..

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

Compassable :: Compassable (a.) Capable of being compassed or accomplished.

Close :: Close (n.) To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.

Viola :: Viola (n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass..

Nutshell :: Nutshell (n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value..

Tuck :: Tuck (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves..

Amid :: Amid (prep.) In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.

Encompass :: Encompass (v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world..

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..

Orientation :: Orientation (n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings..

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about..

Incompass :: Incompass (v. t.) See Encompass.

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

Tinchel :: Tinchel (n.) A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass..

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