cincture
61belt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. girdle, band; stripe; zone; circuit. v. t. bind, encircle; gird; whip. See circularity, circumscription, impulse. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A long flexible strip] Syn. sash, cummerbund, obi, cincture,… …
62precinct — [15] The notion underlying precinct is of ‘encirclement’ or ‘enclosure’. It comes from the past participle of Latin praecingere ‘gird about, surround’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae ‘before, around’ and cingere ‘encircle… …
63shingle — English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘ascend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the… …
64belt — n 1. girdle, sash, waistband, cummerbund, cestus, Archaic. zone, Archaic, Poetic. cincture; baldric, cord, cordon, braid, thong, strap, (for a horse) surcingle. 2. band, headband, ribbon, frontlet, fillet; collar, collarband, neckband; hatband,… …
65precinct — [15] The notion underlying precinct is of ‘encirclement’ or ‘enclosure’. It comes from the past participle of Latin praecingere ‘gird about, surround’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae ‘before, around’ and cingere ‘encircle… …
66shingle — English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘ascend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the… …
67cinctured — cincˈtured adjective Having a cincture • • • Main Entry: ↑cincture …
68Abyssal zone — Zone one (z[=o]n), n. [F. zone, L. zona, Gr. zw nh; akin to zwnny nai to gird, Lith. j[*u]sta a girdle, j[*u]sti to gird, Zend y[=a]h.] 1. A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic] [1913 Webster] An embroidered zone surrounds her waist. Dryden. [1913… …
69body of the place — Enceinte En ceinte , n. [F., fr. enceindre to gird about, surround, L. incingere; in (intens). + cingere to gird. See {Cincture}.] 1. (Fort.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; called also {body of the place} …
70Ceint — Ceint, n. [See {Cincture}.] A girdle. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] || …
