Cincture

['sɪŋktʃə] or ['sɪŋktʃɚ]

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

(n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

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

Typist: Portia

n. Band, belt, girdle, cestus.

Edited by Della

SYN:olor, slight_taste,[See BIND], ~_\n.\]

Typist: Wilhelmina

n. a girdle or belt: a moulding round a column.—v.t. to gird encompass.—adjs. Cinct surrounded; Cinc′tured having a cincture.

Checker: Shari