The Collaborative International Dictionary
Begirt \Be*girt"\, v. t.
To encompass; to begird.
--Milton.
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Begird \Be*gird"\, v. t. [imp. Begirt, Begirded; p. p. Begirt; p. pr. & vb. n. Begirding.] [AS. begyrdan (akin to Goth. bigairdan); pref. be- + gyrdan to gird.]
To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
To surround as with a band; to encompass.
Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To surround or enclose
WordNet
See begird
Usage examples of "begirt".
Drifts piled high in bleak ravines, and the grim gneissoid crags were begirt with gigantic icicles.
Which many an envious slave then breathed in vain From his dim dungeon, and my spirit sprung To meet thee from the woes which had begirt it long!
Drifts piled high in bleak ravines, and the grim gneissoid crags were begirt with gigantic icicles.
Gross, with the fumes of incense full, With parasites tickled, with slaves begirt, He strutted, a cock, he bellowed, a bull, He rolled him, a dog, in dirt.
Unwilling to speak to anybody, he was isolated, yet consciously begirt by the mysterious action going on all over the house, from Clara and De Craye to Laetitia and young Crossjay, down to Barclay the maid.
And there were groups where silvery springs The ethereal forest showed begirt By companies in choric rings, Whom but to see made ear alert.
The prospect of an entry into the big new house, among a new society, begirt by the old nightmares and fretting devils, drew her into staring daylight or furnace-light.
They wound their way by borders of crag, seeing in a dell below the mouth of the idle mine begirt with weedy and shrub-hung rock, a dripping semicircle.