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Top :: Top (n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface..

Seawand :: Seawand () See Sea girdles.

Seint :: Seint (n.) A girdle.

Begirded :: Begirded () of Begir.

Sash :: Sash (n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc..

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

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.

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

Engird :: Engird (v. t.) To gird; to encompass.

Tail-bay :: Tail-bay (n.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay..

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..

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A girder.

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

Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

Twister :: Twister (n.) A girder.

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

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

Undergird :: Undergird (v. t.) To blind below; to gird round the bottom.

Girding :: Girding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gir.

Postclavicle :: Postclavicle (n.) A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.

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