Found 3 hits - Term: waist, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
waist \waist\, n. oe. wast; originally, growth, akin to as.
weaxan to grow; cf. as. waestm growth. see wax to grow.
1913 webster
1. that part of the human body which is immediately below the
ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the
thorax and hips. --chaucer.
1913 webster
i am in the waist two yards about. --shak.
1913 webster
2. hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially
naut., that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc.,
which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the
middle part of the ship.
1913 webster
3. a garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body
from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
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4. a girdle or belt for the waist. obs. --shak.
1913 webster
waist anchor. see sheet anchor, 1, in the vocabulary.
1913 webster
see also:
wax waist anchor sheet anchor
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
waist
n 1: the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips syn: waistline
2: the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide
part of the sole syn: shank
see also:
waistline shank
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 moby thesaurus words for "waist":
blouse, bodice, center, core, corsage, diameter, diaphragm, dickey,
equator, heart, interior, kernel, linen, mean, median, middle,
midmost, midriff, midst, nucleus, shift, shirt, thick,
thick of things, waistline, zone
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