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Webster 1913 Edition

Compassing

Com′pass-ing

,

Adj.

(Shipbuilding)

Curved; bent;

as,

compassing

timbers

.

Webster 1828 Edition

Compassing

COMPASSING

, ppr.

1.

Embracing; going round; inclosing; obtaining; accomplishing; imagining; intending.

2.

In ship-building, incurvated; arched.