1. (n.) A griddle.

2. (n.) That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

3. (n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.

4. (n.) The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

5. (n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.

6. (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

7. (v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

8. (v. t.) To enclose; to environ; to shut in.

9. (v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

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