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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..

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

Zoneless :: Zoneless (a.) Not having a zone; ungirded.

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

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

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

Girdlestead :: Girdlestead (n.) The lap.

Girdler :: Girdler (n.) A maker of girdles.

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

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

Anlace :: Anlace (n.) A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint..

Overgird :: Overgird (v. t.) To gird too closely.

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

Templet :: Templet (n.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure..

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

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.

Zone :: Zone (v. t.) To girdle; to encircle.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The zodiac; also, the equator..

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

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