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 Wilfred Owen
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Elizabeth Garver Jordan
They were begirt upon all hands by cannibals; and the oven was ready to smoke for them abroad in the country of their foes, or at home in the valley of their fathers.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Soon after these, came striding up the hill the long gaunt form of Stephen Foster, who, mounting the stone wall on the lower side, with one bound sprang over the thickset-hedge that begirt the terrace.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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 William Morris
The misty blue outlines of the Rocky Mountains were only just visible; between them and myself I looked down on the most fertile valleys, which were begirt by lofty mountains.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
“A youth, his new-form'd horns with reeds begirt, “Sudden appear'd, 'mid waist above the waves; “Who but in stature larger, and his skin “Of azure teint, might Acis well be deem'd.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
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