Word Meanings - BELT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See BELT (more info) OHG. balz, L. balteus, Ir. & Gael. balt bo 1. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden. 2. That

Additional info about word: BELT

See BELT (more info) OHG. balz, L. balteus, Ir. & Gael. balt bo 1. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden. 2. That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak. 3. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BELT)

• Gird
• Surround
• encircle
• hem
• environ
• belt
• enclose
• engirdle
• encompass
• girdle
• begird

Related words: (words related to BELT)

• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• ENCOMPASSMENT
  The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• SURROUND
  To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• ENCOMPASS
  To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J.
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• ENVIRON
  To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• ENCIRCLE
  To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.
• BEGIRD
  1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird. 2. To surround as with a band; to encompass.
• ENCIRCLET
  A small circle; a ring. Sir P. Sidney.
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• BEGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle.
• ENVIRONMENT
  1. Act of environing; state of being environed. 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment,
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• DISENCLOSE
  See DISINCLOSE