noun a pair of compasses.
2. compass ·noun a circle; a continent.
3. compass ·noun an inclosed space; an area; extent.
4. compass ·noun a passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
5. compass ·vt to go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
6. compass ·vt to curve; to bend into a circular form.
7. compass ·noun the range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
8. compass ·noun moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits;
used with within.
9. compass ·noun an inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
10. compass ·noun extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
11. compass ·vt to purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
12. compass ·vt to reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
13. compass ·noun an instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
14. compass ·vt to inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege;
used with about, round, around, and round about.