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Gold-bound :: Gold-bound (a.) Encompassed with gold.

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

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.

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

Summary :: Summary (a.) Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts..

Mercy :: Mercy (n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.

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..

Describe :: Describe (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted..

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..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

Compassless :: Compassless (a.) Having no compass.

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

Extent :: Extent (n.) Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity..

Bezel :: Bezel (n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set..

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.

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

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

Ruth :: Ruth (v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

Compassion :: Compassion (v. t.) To pity.

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