cinctured (singkturd)

[ Girded with a cincture; girdled. Their feather- cinctured chiefs and dusky loves. Gray, Progre of Poesy. His movements were watched by hundreds of natives, an exceedingly tall race, almost naked, the women cinctured with a woof of painted feathers or a deerskin Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 34. apron. cinder (sin'der), n. [ prob. cindring, a . See cindering . cindroust, a . See cinderous . cine faction) (sin-e-fak's hon), n . [ factio (n-), cine fact us , turned to ashes, ci- nis , ashes, + fact us , pp. of facere , make. Cf. cinefy.] The act or proce of reducing to ashes. E. Phillips , 1706. cinefyt, v . t . [L. cinis , ashes, + -ficare , fa- cere, make. Cf. cine faction .] To reduce to ashes. Coles , 1717. sindr = Sw. sinder, slag or dro from a forge, Dan. sinder, a spark of ignited iron, a cinder, = D. sintels, cinders, coke, = OHG. sin cinematograph (sin-ē-mat'ō-graf), n. See vita matic, etc. cinematic, cinema tical, etc. Same as kine = tar, MHG. G. sinter, dro of iron, scale (> E. sinter, q. v.); origin uncertain. The spelling and sense of the E. word have been affected by F. cendre, I shall show the cinders of my spirits Shak ., A. and C., v. 2. Through the ashes of my chance. 3. pl. The ma of ashes, with small fragments of unconsumed coal interspersed, which remains after imperfect combustion, or after a fire has gone out. (See coke1.)-4. pl. In geol., coarse ash or scoriæ thrown out of volcanos. (See ash2.) This material when solidified becomes tuff or tufa.-5. One of the scales thrown off by iron when it is worked by the blacksmith. There is in smiths' cinders, by some adhesion of iron, sometimes to be found a magnetical operation. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 6. In metal., slag, especially that produced in making pig-iron in the blast-furnace.-7. Any strong liquor, as brandy, whisky, sherry, etc., mixed with a weaker beverage, as soda-water, lemonade, water, etc., to fortify it; a "stick." [Slang.]