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nience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.

Foul; fifthy; disgusting. A girdle foul with grease bobscene attire. Dryden.

That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper. Pectoral arch, or Pectoral girdle (Anat.), the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the fore limbs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side. -- Pec…

aining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis. Pelvic arch, or Pelvic girdle (Anat.), the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the hind limbs are articulated. When fully ossified, the arch usually consists of three principal bones on each side, the ilium, isch…

A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar, a.

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

To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

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.

The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

See Sea girdles.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

A girdle. [Obs.] "Girt with a seint of silk." Chaucer.

A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

cember had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. Addison. She had her shirts and girdles of hair. Bp. Fisher.

gion 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.

, a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist.

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

The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface. Knight.