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sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus. Within the girdle of these walls. Shak. Their breasts girded with golden girdles. Rev. xv. 6.

One who girdles.

That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.] Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.

To surround as with a girdle.

To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

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

The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

ing else; an appurtenance. [Obs.] Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. Shak.

To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.

To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden.

brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. Shak. Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. Dryden.

rvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

A girdle. [Obs.]

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] Collins.

A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.