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Girdlestead :: Girdlestead (n.) That part of the body where the girdle is worn.

Begird :: Begird (v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

Zone :: Zone (n.) A girdle; a cincture.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment..

Coracoid :: Coracoid (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals..

Zonar :: Zonar (n.) A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.

Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.

Gird :: Gird (v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

Cordelier :: Cordelier (n.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.

Succinct :: Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

Girder :: Girder (n.) One who, or that which, girds..

Deflection :: Deflection (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.

Girdler :: Girdler (n.) An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae..

Pavilion :: Pavilion (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

Engirt :: Engirt (v. t.) To engird.

Gird :: Gird (n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

Headway :: Headway (n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath..

Floor :: Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2..

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