n. [ AS. belt; akin to Icel. belti, Sw. bälte, Dan. bælte, OHG. balz, L. balteus, Ir. & Gael. balt border, belt. ] 1. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which restrains or confines as a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Astron.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Geog.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Her.) A token or badge of knightly rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mech.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. [ See Illust. of Pulley. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Nat. Hist.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. [ 1913 Webster ]

Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belted; p. pr. & vb. n. Belting. ] To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. [ 1913 Webster ]

A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gael. bealltainn, bealltuinn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The first day of May (Old Style). [ 1913 Webster ]

The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three men with belted brands. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Beltane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. lacking a belt. beltless jackets are in this season belted
Syn. -- unbelted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]