Ye shall compass the city--and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times. Josh. 6. For ye compass sea and land. Math. 23. 4. To besiege; to beleaguer; to block up. This is not a different sense, but a particular application. Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. Luke 19. 5.
The people so classified also were categorized collectively as gente de razn, a term that literally means people of reason, but was originally used to designate non-Spaniards and especially people of mixed genetic heritage who were able to speak the Spanish language.
long gestational period ,few offspring, internal development , small zygotes. Cleavage. the process by which the zygote rapidly divides without growing to become multicellular. morula. an embryonic stage consisting of a solid, compact mass of sixteen or more cells. inner cell mass. the internal cells of a morula or blastocyst. trophoblast cells. the external cells of a morula or blastocyst. Blastula.