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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.
The battery-powered Skyseeker has an on-board Global Positioning System and a magnetic compass, along with a pan-tilt camera that can give commanders a real-time view of crime scenes, said sheriff's Cmdr.
95) by Alan Gurney provides an eye-opening survey of the history of the magnetic compass, which for a thousand years was the only instrument sailors used for navigation.
 
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