Girdle

·noun The zodiac; also, the equator.

II. Girdle ·noun A thin bed or stratum of stone.

III. Girdle ·noun A Griddle.

IV. Girdle ·noun The clitellus of an Earthworm.

V. Girdle ·vt To bind with a belt or sash; to Gird.

VI. Girdle ·vt To Inclose; to Environ; to shut in.

VII. Girdle ·vt To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, ·etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

VIII. Girdle ·noun The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. ·see ·Illust. of Brilliant.

IX. Girdle ·noun That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; ·esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.