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Begird :: Begird (v. t.) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

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

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc..

Zoned :: Zoned (a.) Wearing a zone, or girdle..

Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..

Girding :: Girding (n.) That with which one is girded; a girdle.

Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..

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

Precoracoid :: Precoracoid (n.) The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

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..

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

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

Shingles :: Shingles (n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain..

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) A griddle.

Gird :: Gird (v.) To strike; to smite.

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..

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..

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..

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