(n) the act of turning aside suddenly

(n) an erratic deflection from an intended course

(v) turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

(v) prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border"

(v) bind with something round or circular

(v) put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins"

(v) encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields"

(n) the person to whom you are engaged

(s) pledged to be married; "the engaged couple"

(a) concerned with or related to the future; "prospective earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "the statute is solely prospective in operation"

(n) a public promotion of some product or service

(v) make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"

(v) make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"

(v) give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"

(s) putting an end to all debate or action; "a peremptory decree"

(s) not allowing contradiction or refusal; "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands"

(s) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisteri

(n) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac"

(n) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"