girdle

1. Girdle
   A griddle.
2. Girdle
   (Mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
3. girdle
   (Anat) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic.
4. Girdle
   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. "Within the girdle of these walls.", "Their breasts girded with golden girdles ."
5. Girdle
   (Zoöl) The clitellus of an earthworm.
6. Girdle
   (Jewelry) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
7. Girdle
   The zodiac; also, the equator. "From the world's girdle to the frozen pole.", "That gems the starry girdle of the year."
8. Girdle
   To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
9. Girdle
   To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

1. (n) girdle
   A band, belt, or zone; something drawn round the waist of a person and fastened: as, a girdle of fine linen; a leathern girdle. The primary use of the girdle is to confine to the person the long flowing garments anciently, and still in some countries, worn by both men and women; and it is now frequently used in women's dress (commonly called a belt) and in military costume (a belt or sash). (See cestus.) The girdle has also served for the support of weapons, utensils, bags or pockets, etc. In the middle ages books were sometimes bound with a strip of flexible stuff hanging from one end of the volume, which could be drawn through the girdle and secured. Among many peoples, the girdle being large and loose, the scabbard of a sword or long dagger is passed through the girdle instead of being hung from it, a hook or projecting button serving to hold it in place. In ecclesiastical use the girdle is a cord with which the priest or other cleric binds the alb about the waist. Formerly it was flat and broad, and sometimes adorned with jewels; in the Roman Catholic Church it has been changed to a long cord with dependent extremities and tassels. It is regarded as a symbol of continence and self-restraint. It is usually of linen, though sometimes of wool, and is generally white, but sometimes colored to adapt it to the color of the other vestments.
2. (n) girdle
   Hence An inclosing circle, or that which encircles; circumference; compass; limit.
3. (n) girdle
   The zodiac (which see).
4. (n) girdle
   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.
5. (n) girdle
   In architecture, a small band or fillet round the shaft of a column.
6. (n) girdle
   In coal-mining, a thin bed of sandstone.
7. (n) girdle
   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.
8. (n) girdle
   In botany, a (usually) longitudinal belt formed by the overlapping edges of two valves of a diatom frustule.
9. (n) girdle
   A seaweed, Laminaria digitata, the divisions of whose fronds are strap-like.
10. girdle
    To encircle or bind with a belt, cord, or sash; gird.
11. girdle
    To make the circuit of; encompass; environ; inclose; shut in.
12. girdle
    To draw a line round, as by marking or cutting; specifically, to cut a complete circle round, as a tree or a limb. In new countries, as North America, in clearing land of trees they are often girdled by cutting through the bark and into the sap-wood, so that they may die and ultimately fall by their own decay. Mice often girdle young trees by gnawing.
13. (n) girdle
    A griddle.
14. (n) girdle
    A ring made round the trunk of a tree by the removal of the bark either purposely or accidentally.
15. (n) girdle
    In earthworms, the cingulum or clitellum.

1. (n) Girdle
   gėrd′l that which encircles, esp. a band or belt for the waist: an enclosure, compass, limit: in jewellery, a horizontal line surrounding a stone
2. (v.t) Girdle
   to bind, as with a girdle: to enclose: to make a circular incision, as through the bark of a tree to kill it
3. (n) Girdle
   gėrd′l a Scotch form of griddle.

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corset

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