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Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about..

Crow-trodden :: Crow-trodden (a.) Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes..

Query :: Query (n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity..

Circumvolution :: Circumvolution (n.) A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was ?243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180..

Caperer :: Caperer (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen..

Umbecast :: Umbecast (v. i.) To cast about; to consider; to ponder.

Zehner :: Zehner (n.) An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about five cents..

Rummage :: Rummage (n.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage..

Iatromathematician :: Iatromathematician (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists..

Bridegroom :: Bridegroom (n.) A man newly married, or just about to be married..

Spina Bifida :: Spin (n.) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.

Gad :: Gad (n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled..

Oval :: Oval (a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical..

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses..

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

Dagges :: Dagges (n. pl.) An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans..

Graft :: Graft (n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union..

Windlass :: Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

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