compass (sense ‘range of voice’ occurs Ham. III. ii. 391)
1.
circle,
circumference
Gent. II. vii. 51
“What will you wear
your farthingale?,”
Wiv. V. v. 72, R2 II. i. 101,
3H6 IV. iii. 46
“the of her”
[Fortune's] “wheel.”
2.
circular course,
circuit
Cæs. V. iii. 25
“My life is run his
compass,”
Oth. III. iv. 72
“A sibyl, that had
number'd in the world The sun to course
two hundred compasses.”
3.
bounds, limits;
range, reach R2 III. iv. 40,
1H4 III. iii. 22
“in good ”
(=within reasonable limits),
H8 I. i. 36
“Beyond thought's
compass,”
Tit. V. i. 126, Oth. III. iv. 21 (Qq
“compassing”).
