a griddle.-that which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.-the zodiac; also, the equator.-the line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. see illust. of brilliant.-a thin bed or stratum of stone.-the clitellus of an earthworm.-to bind with a belt or sash; to gird.-to inclose; to environ; to shut in.-to make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.