cincture (singktur)

[= F. ceinture = Pr. centura = It. cintura (Sp. cintura, the waist, formerly a girdle, = Pg. cintura, the waist), Hold out this tempest. Shak ., K. John, iv. Like one that shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast. IMG:content-0424.png:[blocks in formation] 3. cinder-pig (sin'der-pig), n. Pig-iron made from Cole ridge, Christ a bel, i. Specifically-2. The girdle used to confine a clergyman's ca ock, usually of the color of the ca ock and made of silk or serge. Stepped from the crowd a ghostly wight, In azure gown, and cincture white. Scott , Marmion, iv. 16. Hence-3. Something resembling a belt or girdle. Round all the dazl'd Zodiac which throws His spangled Cincture o'r the slippery Spheres To keep in order and gird up the Years. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 69. 4. That which encompa es or incloses; inclosure; barrier; circuit; fence. The court and prison being within the cincture of one Bacon, Hen. VII. wall. 5. In arch., a raised ring or a list around a col umn.-Humeral cincture, in ichth., a belt of bones bearing the pectoral fin of a fish, by some considered homologous with the scapular arch, by others with the hu cinder. See bulldog, 6. cinder-sifter (sin'der-sifter), n. One who or that which sifts cinders; specifically, a perforated shovel or sieve for sifting ashes or dust from cinders.