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Compass
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TO COMPASS. To imagine; to contrive.
     2. In England, to compass the death of the king is high treason. Bract. 1. 3, c. 2 Britt. c. 8; Mirror, c. 1, s. 4.
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Gurney, formerly a yacht designer and now a writer living in Suffolk, England, has written a richly detailed history of the most important navigational device of all time--the magnetic compass.
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