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
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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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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
Like a child in the cradle,” continued Hanna, pointing to the pool begirt by dark maples and weeping-willows, whose melancholy branches drooped in the water.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
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
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 Johann Arndt
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 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 Luís de Camões
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