Crossword clues for girded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gird \Gird\ (g[~e]rd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girtor Girded; p. pr. & vb. n. Girding.] [OE. girden, gurden, AS. gyrdan; akin to OS. gurdian, D. gorden, OHG. gurten, G. g["u]rten, Icel. gyr[eth]a, Sw. gjorda, Dan. giorde, Goth. biga['i]rdan to begird, and prob. to E. yard an inclosure. Cf. Girth, n. & v., Girt, v. t.]
To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
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To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.
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To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
I girded thee about with fine linen.
--Ezek. xvi. 10.The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.
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To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
Thou hast girded me with strength.
--Ps. xviii. 39.To gird on, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
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.
He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.
--1 Kings xviii. 4 -
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: gird)
Usage examples of "girded".
She wore a cross sash of blue and green plaid, and a saber girded to her hip.
An unmounted figure emerged from the forest to the west, an ancient sword girded at its side and the chain of a manacle dangling from its wrist.
He wore a breastplate of enameled crimson, and a baldric of black that girded a longsword at his hip.
Jannis girded on his long saber and his tin decoration and strutted up and down.
They put on their fezzes with the big tassels and girded on their belts.
Barba Jannis girded on his long saber and his tin decoration and strutted up and down.
He girded on his scimitar and looked out toward those accursed Lasithi mountains.
A winged horse was embroidered in gold on the left sleeve of her shortcoat, and a saber girded at her side.
Now the boy addressed her with the proper tone of respect, and eyed the saber girded at her side with trepidation.
He was garbed in light mail, a short hunting sword girded at his side, and the silver fillet rested on his brow.
Mars Invictus a special sacrifice, Lucullus girded his loins for the fray at dawn on the sixth day of Roman October.
He saw no sign of yielding in either face, girded his loins and went on.
When I was within the house I found my deare and sweet love Fotis mincing of meat and making pottage for her master and mistresse, the Cupboord was all set with wines, and I thought I smelled the savor of some dainty meats : she had about her middle a white and clean apron, and shee was girded about her body under the paps with a swathell of red silke, and she stirred the pot and turned the meat with her fair and white hands, in such sort that with stirring and turning the same, her loynes and hips did likewise move and shake, which was in my mind a comely sight to see.
But because it is a crime unto me to say so, and to give no example thereof, know ye, that if you spoyle and cut the haire of any woman or deprive her of the colour of her face, though shee were never so excellent in beauty, though shee were throwne downe from heaven, sprung of the Seas, nourished of the flouds, though shee were Venus her selfe, though shee were waited upon by all the Court of Cupid, though were girded with her beautifull skarfe of Love, and though shee smelled of perfumes and musks, yet if shee appeared bald, shee could in no wise please, no not her owne Vulcanus.
Behold then more and more appeared the pomps and processions, attired in regall manner and singing joyfully : One was girded about the middle like a man of armes : Another bare and spare, and had a cloake and high-shooes like a hunter !