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To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.

Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.

ip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone. -- Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. -- Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. -- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip…

To encircle to gird; to engirt. The wreath is ivy that ingirts our beams. Drayton.

ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.

To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser.

g, the bands being vertical and horizontal. Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. -- Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. -- Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar (Ouviran…

Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.

A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.

Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

in or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.

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.

A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds.

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.