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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..

Pantochronometer :: Pantochronometer (n.) An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial..

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) The entire compass of tones.

Merciful :: Merciful (a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.

Encompassing :: Encompassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encompas.

Harpings :: Harpings (n. pl.) The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem..

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..

Concentration :: Concentration (n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water..

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

Incompass :: Incompass (v. t.) See Encompass.

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..

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

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

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..

Constipate :: Constipate (v. t.) To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.

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

Compass :: Compass (n.) A pair of compasses.

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

Rose :: Rose (n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments..

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

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