Girdled vs Circumcinct - What's the difference?
girdled | circumcinct |
(girdle)
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
* Shakespeare
A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
* Bible, Revelations xv. 6
The zodiac; also, the equator.
* Campbell
* Cowper
The line of greatest circumference of a diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
The clitellum of an earthworm.
(Scottish, Northern English)
To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
As verbs the difference between girdled and circumcinct
is that girdled is (girdle) while circumcinct is .As an adjective circumcinct is
girdled about, encompassed.girdled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*girdle
English
Noun
(en noun)- within the girdle of these walls
- their breasts girded with golden girdles
- that gems the starry girdle of the year
- from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)