noun. A belt, usually of ornamented leather, worn over a shoulder to support a sword or bugle.

noun. A belt, or an ornament resembling a belt.

noun. In particular— A belt worn round the waist, as the Roman cingulum, or military belt.

noun. A jeweled ornament worn round the neck by both ladies and gentlemen in the sixteenth century.

noun. Figuratively, the zodiac.

noun. A belt worn over the right or left shoulder, crossing the body diagonally to the waist or below it, either simply as an ornament or to suspend a sword, dagger, or horn. Such belts, in medieval and Renaissance times, were sometimes richly decorated and garnished with bells, precious stones, etc.

noun. The leather thong or gear by which the clapper of a church-bell was formerly suspended.

noun. Also spelled baldrick.

noun. A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; it is used to support a sword or bugle by the left hip; less properly, any belt.

noun. A belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.

noun. a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip

"Then they slept till daybreak, when the battle-drums beat to fight and the swords in baldric were dight; and war-cries were cried amain and all mounted their horses of generous strain and drew out into the field, filling every wide place and hill and plain."

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