n. A belt, or an ornament resembling a belt.n. In particular— A belt worn round the waist, as the Roman cingulum, or military belt.n. A jeweled ornament worn round the neck by both ladies and gentlemen in the sixteenth century.n. Figuratively, the zodiac.n. 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.n. The leather thong or gear by which the clapper of a church-bell was formerly suspended.n. Also spelled baldrick.