Obs. Also 4 seynt, 5 ceynte; also SAINT, SAIN, q.v. [a. OF. ceint, ceinct:—L. cinctus in same sense f. cingĕre to gird.] A girdle; the woven portion of a girdle.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 793 (Add. MS.). Abowte hure myddel a seynt sche souȝt.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 329. Girt with a ceint of silk with barres smale.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, V. v. (1859), 76. These Aungels ledden thre spirites whiche were … gyrd with ceyntes of gold.
1530. Palsgr., 268/2. Seynt of a gyrdell, tissu.
