engird

American  

[en-gurd] / ɛnˈgɜrd /

verb (used with object)

engirt, engirded, engirding

1. to encircle; encompass.

   The equator engirds the earth.

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Etymology

Origin of engird

First recorded in 1560–70; en- ¹ + gird ¹

Example Sentences

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engird engirded engirding engirt

"Does not the chace," he would say, "now afford us equal pleasure? are not my dogs as swift, and these mountains as replete with game as those which engird my paternal residence."

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

The floors of the gallery which engird the rotunda, and the winding stairs leading to them, are of iron.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

She cites, as witness to her word, The frowning Adriatic strand; The Cyclades which rocks engird, And noted Rhodus’ distant land; Propontis and unkindly Thrace, And Savage Pontus’ billowy race.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

I sought Rebellion, and found grim Authority engirded there; I mustered in the ranks of Royal Authority, and found there only Chaos fighting in straighter lines.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

I propose," said he, "that the members of the Commune, engirded with their scarfs, shall make a review of all the battalions that can be assembled on the Boulevard Voltaire.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

By a mile of engirding sea the prospect of escape looked so vain that one joined assent with a fleer.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

The wreath that surrounded the child was not circular but oblong, almost as though engirding a tiny grave, but this Mehetabel did not see.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

She met him at the point where the last tree of the engirding avenue flanked the last house in the street.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

All 403the while the physician is silent concerning the glove-fitting, steel-clasped corset, the heavy, dragging skirts, the bands engirding the body, the pinching, deforming boot, and the ruinous social dissipation of fashionable society.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

A vague, constraining sense of invisible beings, by whom we are engirt, fills us.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Tho once surrounded by fenland, the Abbey of Glastonbury—a veritable treasure-house of legendary lore—stands now amid orchards and level pasture lands engirt by the river Bure.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

His statues of Dionysus also expressed the most consummate physical beauty, representing the god as a beautiful youth, crowned with ivy, engirt with a nebris, and expressing tender and dreamy emotions.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

The two white men were engirt with a mystery that defended them from all harm.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

That gold must round engirt these brows of mine, Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure.

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William