/singk"cheuhr/ , n. , v. , cinctured, cincturing .
n.
1. a belt or girdle.
2. something that surrounds or encompasses as a girdle does; a surrounding border: The midnight sky had a cincture of stars.
3. (on a classical column) a fillet at either end of a shaft, esp. one at the lower end. Cf. orle (def. 3b).
4. the act of girding or encompassing.
v.t.
5. to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass.
[ cinctura, equiv. to cinct ( us ) ( cinc-, var. s. of cingere to gird, CINCH + -tus ptp. suffix) + -ura -URE ]