LekhoriLekhoriA magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
[H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?
A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please
The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about!
In a circuit; round about.
[T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.
From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + ...
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To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
[…] tho' theſe ſeem'd to be very unfit Inſtruments for compaſſing of that great Deſign for which they were then employ'd, becauſe of their Inability and Uncapacity in performing the Work ſo very great and important; […]