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   Gird (gẽrd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girt (?) or 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.
   
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   2. To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
   
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   3. To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
   
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   That Nyseian isle,
   
   Girt with the River Triton. Milton.
   
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   4. To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
   
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   I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10.
   
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   The Son . . . appeared
   
   Girt with omnipotence. Milton.
   
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   5. To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, “to gird one's self for a contest”.
   
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   Thou hast girded me with strength. Ps. xviii. 39.
   
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   To gird on, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
   
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   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.
   
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   He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. 1 Kings xviii. 46.
   
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   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.
   
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   Girt (gẽrt), imp. & p. p. of Gird.
   
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   Girt, 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”.
   
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   We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,
   
   And girt thee with the sword. Shak.
   
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   Girt, 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.
   
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   Girt (gẽrt), n. Same as Girth.
   
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