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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Waist \Waist\, noun [OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. w[ae]stm growth. See {Wax} to grow.]
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.
I am in the waist two yards about. --Shak.
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.
3. A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
4. A girdle or belt for the waist. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Waist anchor}. See {Sheet anchor}, 1, in the Vocabulary.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
waist
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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