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travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"

navigational instrument for finding directions

drafting instrument used for drawing circles

the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"

navigational instrument for finding directions

drafting instrument used for drawing circles

the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"

A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.

An inclosed space; an area; extent.

Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.

The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.

An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.

A pair of compasses.

A circle; a continent.

To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.

To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.

To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.

To curve; to bend into a circular form.

To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.

To encircle; walk around; to accomplish; attain; besiege.

A circle; a circumference; extent; moderate bounds; an instrument used on ships for finding the directions, north, south, east, and west.

To pass or go round: to surround or inclose: to besiege: to bring about or obtain: to contrive or plot.

Circuit; space; limit; magnetic instrument to indicate the north.

To surround; obtain; plot.

The range of a voice or instrument.

An instrument for determining directions by the pointing of a magnetic needle northward, as in the mariners compass.

Circuit; space; limit; reach; range; moderate bounds or due limits; an instrument contrived to indicate the magnetic meridian and so ascertain direction, especially in determining and guiding the course of a ship at sea.

To stretch round; to encircle; to surround; to invest; to go or walk round; to obtain; to accomplish; to contrive or plot. To fetch a compass, to make a circuit.

Grasp; reach; space; extent; the limit or boundary of anything-applied to anything that can be measured or limited; a circuit; a circumference; the magnetic needle or mariner's compass; a guide; a direction.

A curved bifid structure, part of Aristotle's lantern.

Circle; round a circuit; circumference; —an inclosing limit; boundary; —an inclosed space; area; extent; range; —the whole extent of a voice or instrument in the musical scale; —an instrument serving to indicate the position or bearing of any body towards the horizon. It consists of a magnetic needle, which, corrected for variation, points due north, a sight line pointing to the horizon, and a circular card divided into thirty-two equal parts. The deflection or difference between the sight point and the north point of the needle, gives the position or bearing.

Circle, round; space, room, limits; enclosure, circumference; a departure from the right line, an indirect advance; moderate space, moderation, due limits; the power of the voice to express the notes of musick; the instrument with which circles are drawn; the instrument composed of a needle and card, whereby mariners steer.