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

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

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.

Girt :: Girt (v.) To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree..

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

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb..

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

Epicoracoid :: Epicoracoid (n.) A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

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

Surcingled :: Surcingle (n.) The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist..

Girdled :: Girdled (imp. & p. p.) of Girdl.

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

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

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

Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..

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

Cinctured :: Cinctured (n.) Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.

Engirdle :: Engirdle (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

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..

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

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