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ith or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.

twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). -- Twig girdler. (Zoöl.) See Girdler, 3. -- Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.

To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.] He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.

To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.

Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom. Prior.

yellow, or a mixture of the two. -- Venus's flytrap. (Bot.) See Flytrap, 2. -- Venus's girdle (Zoöl.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix.…

A girdle or belt for the waist. [Obs.] Shak. Waist anchor. See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary.

peace. Wyclif (Luke xi. 21). Wile [ne will] ye wield gold neither silver ne money in your girdles. Wyclif (Matt. x. 9.)

A girdle; a belt. [Poetic & R.] By his side, As in a glistering zodiac, hung the sword. Milton.

A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans. [Written also zonnar.]

A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic] An embroidered zone surrounds her waist. Dryden. Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound. Collins.

Wearing a zone, or girdle. Pope.

A little zone, or girdle.