v. t.
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. →
v.
To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree. →
n.
A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy. →
n.
The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant. →