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Engird

Engird \En*gird"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engirded or Engirt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Engirding.] [Pref. en- + gird. Cf. Ingirt.] To gird; to encompass.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
engird

1560s, from en- (1) "in" + gird (v.). Related: Engirt; engirded.

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engird

vb. to ingirt

Usage examples of "engird".

She had no energy to leave the bed, and Evon knew that soon she would be engirded in something called a cuirass, a negative-pressure device to assist in drawing air into her lungs.

The shaft of the wand slipped into the three-lobed pommel, and the coronet, with its monstrous visages below the cusps, engirded the Circle and closed.

Moonlight filtered by treetops, the engirding atmospheric layers, 485 kilometers of space.