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Compass :: Compass (n.) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

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

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

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

Outcompass :: Outcompass (v. t.) To exceed the compass or limits of.

Compassing :: Compassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compas.

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..

Sea Compass :: Sea compass () The mariner's compass. See under Compass.

Bow-compasses :: Bow-compasses (pl. ) of Bow-compas.

Compassed :: Compassed (a.) Rounded; arched.

Concentration :: Concentration (n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water..

Compensator :: Compensator (n.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

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

Rue :: Rue (v. i.) To have compassion.

Constipation :: Constipation (n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation..

Southeast :: Southeast (n.) The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.

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

Point :: Point (n.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point..

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

Begird :: Begird (v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

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