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   Gird , n. [See Yard a measure.]
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   A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
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   Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
   Tillotson.
   
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   A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
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   I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
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   Gird, v. t. [See Gird, n., and cf. Girde, v.]
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   To strike; to smite. [Obs.]
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   To slay him and to girden off his head.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
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   Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
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   Gird, v. i. To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
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   Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
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   Gird , 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.]
   To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
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   To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
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   To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
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   That Nyseian isle,
   Girt with the River Triton.
   Milton.
   
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   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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   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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