Cincture vs. Girdle

Cincture and Girdle Definitions
Cincture
The act of encircling or encompassing.
Girdle
A belt or sash worn around the waist.
Cincture
Something that encircles or surrounds.
Girdle
Something that encircles like a belt.
Cincture
A belt or sash, especially one worn with an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a monk or nun.
Girdle
An elasticized, flexible undergarment worn over the waist and hips to give the body a more slender appearance.
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Cincture
To gird; encompass.
Girdle
A band made around the trunk of a tree by the removal of a strip of bark.
Cincture
An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
Girdle
The edge of a cut gem held by the setting.
Cincture
A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
Girdle
(Anatomy)The pelvic or pectoral girdle.
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Cincture
(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Girdle
To encircle with a belt.
Cincture
To encircle, or surround.
Girdle
To form a circle around:a ring of hills that girdled the city.
Cincture
(viniculture) To girdle stunt or kill by cutting.
Girdle
To remove a band of bark and cambium from the circumference of (a tree), usually in order to kill it.
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Cincture
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, - as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
Girdle
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
Cincture
That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
Girdle
A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
Cincture
The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Girdle
A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
Cincture
A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
Girdle
The zodiac; also, the equator.
Girdle
The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
Girdle
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
Girdle
The clitellum of an earthworm.
Girdle
The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
Girdle
(transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
Girdle
(transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
Girdle
A griddle.
Girdle
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.
Within the girdle of these walls.
Their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Girdle
The zodiac; also, the equator.
From the world's girdle to the frozen pole.
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
Girdle
The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Girdle
A thin bed or stratum of stone.
Girdle
The clitellus of an earthworm.
Girdle
To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
Girdle
To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
Those sleeping stones,That as a waist doth girdle you about.
Girdle
To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
Girdle
An encircling or ringlike structure
Girdle
A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
Girdle
A woman's close-fitting foundation garment
Girdle
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;
Girdle the plant
Girdle
Put a girdle on or around;
Gird your loins