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Pitiful :: Pitiful (a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.

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

Circinate :: Circinate (v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.

Compressible :: Compressible (a.) Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance..

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..

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

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

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

Transit :: Transit (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit..

Pity :: Pity (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

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..

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

Isle :: Isle (v. t.) To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island..

Inclosure :: Inclosure (n.) The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence..

Compassion :: Compassion (n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration..

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..

Remorseful :: Remorseful (a.) Compassionate; feeling tenderly.

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

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

Surrounding :: Surrounding (n.) An encompassing.

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