compass
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Is compass a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.Examples: "You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass."
2. (obsolete) A space within limits; an area.Examples: "In going up the Missisippi ^([sic]), we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass."; "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."; "Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass."obsolete
3. (obsolete) An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.Examples: "within the compass of an encircling wall"obsolete
4. (formal) Synonym of scope.Examples: "the compass of his argument"; "There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding."; "How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language."Synonyms: scopeformal
5. (obsolete) Range, reach.Examples: "Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come, Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes, But beares it out euen to the edge of doome: If this be error and vpon me proued, I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued."; "Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not."obsolete
6. (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.Examples: "They fetched a compass of seven days' journey."; "This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.Examples: "[…] 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; […]"; "[...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end."; "[...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end."Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get to, reachdated
2. (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).Examples: "That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]"; "But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, …"; "The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes."Synonyms: conspire, plot, schemedated
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.Examples: "[T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe."; "Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, […]"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary