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

Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A girder.

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

Taeniata :: Taeniata (n. pl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example..

Unzoned :: Unzoned (a.) Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom..

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

Begirdle :: Begirdle (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle.

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..

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

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

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

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Waist :: Waist (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.

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

Mortise :: Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder..

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

Girdling :: Girdling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Girdl.

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

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..

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