[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a belt or girdle.", "something that surrounds or encompasses as a girdle does; a surrounding border:The midnight sky had a cincture of stars.", "(on a classical column) a fillet at either end of a shaft, especially one at the lower end.Compare orle(def3b) orle(def3b).", "the act of girding or encompassing."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass."]}]