begird
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to surround; gird around
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to bind
Etymology
Origin of begird
before 900; Middle English begirden, Old English begierdan. See be-, gird 1
Example Sentences
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Till like a cold gust thrilled the little word At which each body and its soul begird And tighten them for battle.
From Poems by Owen, Wilfred
Neither the nurse who comes at dawn to visit her nursling E'er shall avail her neck to begird with yesterday's ribband.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In the mean time the eyes of her sister Grace Margaret had roamed disapprovingly over Genevieve Maud's white dress, the blue sash that begirded her middle, the rampant bow on her hair.
From Many Kingdoms by Jordan, Elizabeth Garver
Men of no compassion, unreached by ordinary sympathies, they felt the furtive skulking back, step by step, along ways commonplace enough in the daytime, but begirt with terrors now and full of demoniac suggestion.
From Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories by Green, Anna Katharine
For it hangs in the midst of heaven, borne up in the air, begirt with the waters, “Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment.”
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
But he himself marks out the walls with shallow ditch around, And falls to work upon the shore his first abode to found, In manner of a camp, begirt with bank and battlement.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
The scene is at the foot of the Splugen Alps, in a little village begirt with mountains, every crag and eminence of which is surmounted by a ruined castle.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
At first the mountain peaks appeared through the dense clouds; and then, by degrees, their steep sides, begirt with rock, and fissured with many a torrent.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James
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