ungird

American  

[uhn-gurd] / ʌnˈgɜrd /

verb (used with object)

ungirded, ungirt, ungirding

1. to loosen or remove a girdle or belt from.

2. to loosen or remove by unfastening a belt.

   to ungird a sword.

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Etymology

Origin of ungird

before 900; Middle English ungirden, Old English ungyrdan; see un- ², gird ¹; cognate with German entgürten

Example Sentences

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ungird ungirded ungirding ungirt

I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.—I pr'ythee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

For on retiring they ungird the sack, and the part which they doubled about the knees they put up to the head.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady; shall I vent to her that thou art coming?

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

I prithee now, ungird     thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

Great ocean, was your mighty calm unstirred As through your depths, unseen, unheard, Sped on its way the glorious word That called a weary nation to ungird, And sheathed once more the keen, reluctant sword?

From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John

Abraham Ezofowich had ungirded his handkerchief and carried it in his hand.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de

The sword he soon ungirded / and quiver laid aside, The mighty spear he leanéd / against the linden-tree: Beside the running fountain / stood the knight stately to see.

From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry

Undine, on entering her bedroom late that evening, was startled by the presence of a muffled figure which revealed itself, through the dimness, as the ungirded midnight outline of Mrs. Spragg.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith

Then he unlaced his helm, and ungirded his sword, and laid himself down to sleep upon his shield tofore the cross.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo

Moodily, he had discovered that there was something amiss with the buckle of his belt, and, having ungirded himself, he was biting the metal tongue of the buckle in order to straighten it.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

He sat down upon the ground, and ungirding the sword, which he bore above his vestments, did not remember to shield the hilt from the rays of the sun.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

And ungirding his sword, he knelt down before Philippe, and did homage to him, asking his assistance to re-establish his rights.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

She wore a dark, shapeless, ungirt robe covered with patches and stains.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

It was that of a slight, innocent-looking girl in a white satin gown, "ungirt from throat to hem," and holding a sheaf of lilies in her hand.

From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)

Now in the ungirt hour—now ere we blink and drowse, Mithras, also a soldier, keep us true to our vows!

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

Alike in life and in art he hated sloth,—the slovenliness of the "ungirt loin" and of the indecisive touch.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

At the first glance it was not easy to recognize it; it was simply the figure of a very tall man in an ungirt costume, composed of shirt and pantaloons.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson