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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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
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
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
The valiant John, begirt with warlike state, Now leads his bands from fair Abrantes' gate; Whose lawns of green the infant Tagus laves, As from his spring he rolls his cooly waves.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
Alone—alone—a desolate dreary wild, Herbless and verdureless; low swampy moss, Where tadpoles grew to frogs, for leagues begirt My solitary path.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Queen yet saw I never begirt with such a band, Each marching as to battle with naked sword in hand.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
The whole space he divided into various terraces, which he begirt with a hem of green; and through these a strangely-twisted flower-bed serpentised along, and ended in a knot of villanously-smelling boxwood.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Kennedy, John Pendleton
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