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      "\u02c8k\u0259mp\u0259s"
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      "From Middle English compas (\u201ca circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument\u201d), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (\u201ca circle, a circuit\u201d), from Latin com- (\u201ctogether\u201d) + passus (\u201ca pace, step, later a pass, way, route\u201d); see pass, pace.",
      "From Middle English compassen (\u201cto go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend\u201d), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun."
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            "mean": "A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north)."
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            "mean": "A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle)."
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            "mean": "(music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) A space within limits; an area."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.\nwithin the compass of an encircling wall"
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            "mean": "Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within."
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          {
            "mean": "(archaic) Scope."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) Range, reach."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course."
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            "mean": "To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round."
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            "mean": "To go about or round entirely; to traverse."
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          {
            "mean": "(dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain."
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          {
            "mean": "(dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone)."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) In a circuit; round about.\n1658,  Thomas Browne,  Urne-Burial\u200e, Penguin, published 2005, \u2192ISBN, page 9:Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances,"
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            "mean": "\u201ccompass\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201ccompass\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC."
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      "(magnetic direction finder): magnetic compass",
      "(device used to draw circular curves): pair of compasses"
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