1. (n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

2. (n.) That which encompasses or encloses; an enclosure.

3. (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

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