Word Meanings - CINCTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column. (more info) 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb. 2. That which encompasses or incloses;

Additional info about word: CINCTURE

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column. (more info) 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb. 2. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

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• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• CONFINABLE
  Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• ROUND
  To whisper. Shak. Holland. The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here" Calderwood.
• ROUNDURE
  Roundness; a round or circle. Shak.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.