Vocabulary : Girandole to Girdlestead

Girandole : An ornamental branched candlestick. ;; A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form. ;; A kind of revolving firework. ;; A series of chambers in defensive mines.
Girasole Girasol : See Heliotrope. ;; A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.
Gird : A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. ;; A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. ;; To strike; to smite. ;; To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. ;; To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms. ;; To encircle or bind with any flexible band. ;; To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc. ;; To surround; to encircle, or encompass. ;; To clothe; to swathe; to invest. ;; To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
Girded : of Gird
Girder : One who girds; a satirist. ;; One who, or that which, girds. ;; A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.

Girding : of Gird ;; That with which one is girded; a girdle.
Girdle : 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.
Girdled : of Girdle
Girdler : One who girdles. ;; A maker of girdles. ;; An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) 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 larvae.
Girdlestead : That part of the body where the girdle is worn. ;; The lap.