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noun. A belt or sash worn around the waist.

noun. Something that encircles like a belt.

noun. An elasticized, flexible undergarment worn over the waist and hips to give the body a more slender appearance.

noun. A band made around the trunk of a tree by the removal of a strip of bark.

noun. The edge of a cut gem held by the setting.

noun. The pelvic or pectoral girdle.

transitive verb. To encircle with a belt.

transitive verb. To form a circle around.

transitive verb. To remove a band of bark and cambium from the circumference of (a tree), usually in order to kill it.

noun. A griddle.

To encircle or bind with a belt, cord, or sash; gird.

To make the circuit of; encompass; environ; inclose; shut in.

To draw a line round, as by marking or cutting; specifically, to cut a complete circle round, as a tree or a limb.

noun. A ring made round the trunk of a tree by the removal of the bark either purposely or accidentally.

noun. In earthworms, the cingulum or clitellum.

noun. A band, belt, or zone; something drawn round the waist of a person and fastened: as, a girdle of fine linen; a leathern girdle.

noun. Hence An inclosing circle, or that which encircles; circumference; compass; limit.

noun. The zodiac (which see).

noun. In gem-cutting; the line or edge that separates the upper from the lower part of a brilliant or other cut stone. It is parallel to the table and culet, and is the part held by the setting. See cut under brilliant.

noun. In architecture, a small band or fillet round the shaft of a column.

noun. In coal-mining, a thin bed of sandstone.

noun. In anatomy, the osseous arch or bony belt by which either limb or diverging appendage is attached to the axial skeleton; the proximal segment of the appendicular skeleton.

noun. In botany, a (usually) longitudinal belt formed by the overlapping edges of two valves of a diatom frustule.

noun. A seaweed, Laminaria digitata, the divisions of whose fronds are strap-like.

transitive verb. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

transitive verb. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

transitive verb. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

noun. A griddle.

noun. That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

noun. The zodiac; also, the equator.

noun. The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.

noun. A thin bed or stratum of stone.

noun. The clitellus of an earthworm.

noun. the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid.

noun. a spinning wheel.

noun. a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus.

noun. See under Pectoral, and Pelvic.

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noun. to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.

noun. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference

noun. A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.

noun. The zodiac; also, the equator.

noun. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

noun. A thin bed or stratum of stone.

noun. The clitellum of an earthworm.

noun. Alternative form of griddle.

verb. To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

"When he took them to be to him for a people, it was that they might be to him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory, as a girdle is an ornament to a man, and particularly the curious girdle of the ephod was to the high-priest for glory and for beauty."

girdle of orion  neptune's girdle  pectoral girdle  pelvic girdle  pin and girdle  

border  environ  incise  ring  skirt  

hurdle  

belt  bracelet  buckle  circlet  cloak  

Mystik tape  Scotch tape  adhesive tape  advocate  alpenstock  

brilliant  

girdled  girdles  girdling