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girt (medicine)


girt


To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree. "We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk, And girt thee with the sword." (Shak)

Origin: From Girt, cf. Girth.

Source: Websters Dictionary


cornet(1) (iou)



cornet noun1. In sense 1 now usu. cornett. LME.
[Old & mod. French dim. of Proto-Romance var. of Latin cornu horn: see -ET1.]
I. Music.
a. Early Music. Orig., a wind instrument made of a horn or resembling a horn. Later = CORNETTO. Also, a player of such an instrument. LME.
b. Orig. cornet-a-piston(s). A valved brass instrument used chiefly in bands, similar to a trumpet but shorter and with a wider mouth; a player of this instrument. M19.
Any of various organ-stops suggestive of a cornet(t), esp. a powerful mixture stop. M17.
II.
a. A piece of paper rolled into a conical form and twisted at the tip, for carrying sugar, salt, etc. M16.
b. A conical wafer, esp. one filled with ice-cream. E20.
A farrier's instrument formerly used for blood-letting. Also cornet-horn. L16-M18.
In gold assaying, a small flat coil into which the sample is rolled after cupellation, prior to the removal of silver by nitric acid. E19.
cor'nettist, cor'netist noun a player of the cornet(t) L18.