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Zodiac :: Zodiac (n.) A girdle; a belt.

Zonule :: Zonule (n.) A little zone, or girdle..

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

Seaware :: Seaware (n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles..

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

Girded :: Girded () of Gir.

Girder :: Girder (n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double..

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

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

Gipsire :: Gipsire (n.) A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.

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

Cuirass :: Cuirass (n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass..

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

Bizet :: Bizet (n.) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n..

Brilliant :: Brilliant (a.) A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with

Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) The space between two principals or girder.

Lyriferous :: Lyriferous (a.) Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes..

Scapula :: Scapula (n.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

Begirding :: Begirding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begir.

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