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Circumferential :: Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.

Ambit :: Ambit (n.) Circuit or compass.

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..

Compassionate :: Compassionate (a.) Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable.

Divider :: Divider (n.) An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses..

Span :: Span (v. t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder..

Palinurus :: Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

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

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence..

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..

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

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W..

Card :: Card (n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

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

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye..

Mad :: Mad (superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.

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

Compass :: Compass (n.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument..

Think :: Think (v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.

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