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v. t. [ imp. Begirt Begirded; p. p. Begirt; p. pr. & vb. n. Begirding. ] [ AS. begyrdan (akin to Goth. bigairdan); pref. be- + gyrdan to gird. ] 1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To surround as with a band; to encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surround as with a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To encompass; to begird. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers.
Syn. -- bar girl. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) a Eurafrican annual (Mercurialis annua) naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic.
Syn. -- herb mercury, herbs mercury. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a mountain in Nepal, 26, 810 feet high. [ proper name ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engirded or Engirt (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Engirding. ] [ Pref. en- + gird. Cf. Ingirt. ] To gird; to encompass. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surround as with a girdle; to girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To engird. [ R. ] Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The type genus of the Giraffidae.
Syn. -- genus Giraffa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. girafe, Sp. girafa, from Ar. zurāfa, zarāfa. ] (Zool.) An African ruminant (Giraffa camelopardalis formerly Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family (Giraffidae) by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of quadriped animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs. There are three types, having different patterns of spots on the pelt and different territories: the Reticulated Giraffe, the Masai Giraffe, and the Uganda Giraffe. Intermediate crosses are also observed. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

prop. n. The natural family of mammals including the giraffes.
Syn. -- family Giraffidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. See Gyrate. ] 1. An ornate ornamental branched candlestick, often with a mirror at the back. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Pyrotechny) A kind of revolving firework. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) A series of chambers in defensive mines. Farrow.

{ } n. [ It. girasole, or F. girasol, fr. L. gyrare to turn around + sol sun. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) See Heliotrope. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Yard a measure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Gird, n., and cf. Girde, v. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To strike; to smite. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To slay him and to girden off his head. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Girt r Girded; p. pr. & vb. n. Girding. ] [ OE. girden, gurden, AS. gyrdan; akin to OS. gurdian, D. gorden, OHG. gurten, G. gürten, Icel. gyrða, Sw. gjorda, Dan. giorde, Goth. bigaírdan to begird, and prob. to E. yard an inclosure. Cf. Girth, n. & v., Girt, v. t. ] 1. To encircle or bind with any flexible band. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To surround; to encircle, or encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

That Nyseian isle,
Girt with the River Triton. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To clothe; to swathe; to invest. [ 1913 Webster ]

I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Son . . . appeared
Girt with omnipotence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast girded me with strength. Ps. xviii. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

To gird on, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword. [ 1913 Webster ] Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. 11. --
To gird up, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ] He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. 1 Kings xviii. 46. [ 1913 Webster ] Gird up the loins of your mind. 1 Pet. i. 13. --
Girt up; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or constantly active; strenuous; striving. “A severer, more girt-up way of living.” J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gird to sneer at. ] One who girds; a satirist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gird to encircle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who, or that which, girds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch. & Engin.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowstring girder,
Box girder, etc. See under Bowstring, Box, etc. --
Girder bridge. See under Bridge. --
Lattice girder, a girder consisting of longitudinal bars united by diagonal crossing bars. --
Half-lattice girder, a girder consisting of horizontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. Knight. --
Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That with which one is girded; a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A griddle. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. gürtel, Icel. gyr&unr_;ill. See Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf. Girth, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within the girdle of these walls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their breasts girded with golden girdles. Rev. xv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The zodiac; also, the equator. [ Poetic ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Jewelry) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The clitellus of an earthworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. --
Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel. --
Sea girdle (Zool.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus. --
Shoulder,
Pectoral, and
Pelvic,
girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. --
To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is, in subjection. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Girdled p. pr. & vb. n. Girdling ] 1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those sleeping stones,
That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who girdles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A maker of girdles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Girdle + stead place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The lap. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Gyre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Gherkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. gör child. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A young person of either sex; a child. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A female servant; a maidservant. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A roebuck two years old. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any female friend; as, Mary and her girlfriend organized the party. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; as, his girlfriend kicked him out. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- girl, lady friend. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. State or time of being a girl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief. -- Girl"ish*ly, adv. -- Girl"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Garland, n. ] A garland; a prize. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Grin, n. ] To grin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Girondiste. ] A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Girondists. [ Written also Girondin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. F. chicarou. ] (Zool.) A garfish. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Babylonian mythology) The Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

imp. & p. p. of Gird. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Girted; p. pr. & vb. n. Girting. ] [ From Girt, n., cf. Girth, v. ] To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,
And girt thee with the sword. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Girth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. gjörð girdle, or gerð girth; akin to Goth. gaírda girdle. See Gird to girt, and cf. Girdle, n. ] 1. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The measure around any object, such as a body at the waist or belly, or a box ; the circumference of anything; as, in order to be acceptable for mailing, the total of height and girth of a package must not exceed 63 inches. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small horizontal brace or girder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From Girth, n., cf. Girt, v. t. ] To bind as with a girth. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A gantline. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hammock girtline, a line rigged for hanging out hammocks to dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also hejira. ] [ Ar. hijrah flight. ] The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The starting point of the Era was made to begin, not from the date of the flight, but from the first day of the Arabic year, which corresponds to July 16, a. d. 622. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Ingirt. ] To encircle; to gird; to engirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wreath is ivy that ingirts our beams. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Surrounded; encircled. Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]