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compass rose

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A graduated circle, usually marked in degrees, indicating directions and printed or inscribed on an appropriate medium.

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Immediately from different points of the compass rose a horrid semicircle of similar shrieks and screams, punctuated now and again by the blood-curdling cry of a hungry panther.
 
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