Constipate: alternatives and connections

a kind of job press, called also alligator press.

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays o…

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to c…

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity…

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks…

That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorde…

To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.

To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close…