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

Compass :: Compass (n.) Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within..

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

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

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

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

Tender :: Tender (superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic..

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

Incompassionate :: Incompassionate (a.) Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless.

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

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

Miniature :: Miniature (v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale..

Bear :: Bear (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E..

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

East :: East (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west..

Bandlet :: Bandlet (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring..

Bow-compass :: Bow-compass (n.) A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet..

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.

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