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n. A belt or sash worn around the waist.

n. Something that encircles like a belt.

n. An elasticized, flexible undergarment worn over the waist and hips, especially by women, to give the body a more slender appearance.

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

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

n. Anatomy The pelvic or pectoral girdle.

v. To encircle with or as if with a belt. See Synonyms at surround.

v. To circle around: a ring of hills that girdled the city.

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

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

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

n. The zodiac; also, the equator.

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

n. A thin bed or stratum of stone.

n. The clitellum of an earthworm.

n. Alternative form of griddle.

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

v. To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

n. A griddle.

n. 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.

n. The zodiac; also, the equator.

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

n. A thin bed or stratum of stone.

n. The clitellus of an earthworm.

n.

v. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

v. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

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

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

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

n. The zodiac (which see).

n. 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.

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

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

n. 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.

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

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

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.

n. A griddle.

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

n. In earthworms, the cingulum or clitellum.

n. an encircling or ringlike structure

v. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

v. put a girdle on or around

n. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

n. a woman's close-fitting foundation garment

"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."

girdled    girdles    girdling   

incise    skirt    ring    environ    surround    border   

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

brilliant   

griddle    circumference    belt    cestus    inclose    environ    band    girth    cingle    brail   

hurdle   

sash    slipper    scarf    tunic    turban    necklace    leggings    belt    doublet    mantle