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"___ up thy loins" (Job 40:7)
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gird
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN loin ▪ We're just unwinding before girding our loins for London. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The Romans enclosed the town with walls that still gird the Old City. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A full frontal approach was ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English gyrdan "put a belt or girdle around; encircle, surround; invest with attributes," from Proto-Germanic *gurthjan (cognates: Old Norse gyrða , Old Saxon gurdian , Old Frisian gerda , Dutch gorden , Old High German gurtan , German gürten ). Related ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border" [syn: arm , build up , fortify ] [ant: disarm ] encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields" [syn: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gird \Gird\, v. t. [See Gird , n., and cf. Girde , v.] To strike; to smite. [Obs.] To slay him and to girden off his head. --Chaucer. To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. --Shak.
Usage examples of gird.
To think how when I find this lucky star, And stand beneath it, like the Wise of old, I shall mount upward on a golden car, Girt round with glory unto worlds afar, While Earth amazed the wonder shall behold, That bears me unto happiness untold!
The largest of those was taller than Alayne, with iron bands girding its dark brown staves.
Suriya was ready to send Aris and Pir out to collect the early summer herbs in the fields far from the city, Gird had decided that the two should live away from the palace, in or near their granges.
If Aris, whom Gird trusted, said he had the healing magery, surely Gird would let him learn to use it.
He did not want to come between Gird and Aris, though he would have liked to convince Gird that his own magery had some good purpose.
Now that she was close, Aris realized what Seri had meant about her being like Gird.
Study this rather, that you may receive praise and promotion at our hands, and go forth, with Divine help, on this Indiction, to such and such a Province, adorned with the pomp of the Cancelli, and girt about with a certain proud gravity.
Opened, the upper part of the garment fell in loose folds around his waist, girt in by the plain rope cincture tied around his waist, leaving his upper body exposed.
Gird and Fori took the litter again, and the other two men took their bundles.
Gird and Fori scooped up the sticky paste of soaked grain, and ate it from dirty fingers.
Gird, Fori, and Pidi through the woods that lay between Fireoak and the next holding to the east.
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.