compass

[H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?

to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please

You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.

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.

within the compass of an encircling wall

In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.

the compass of his argument

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.

They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.