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† enˈgirt, v. Obs.
Also 7–8 ingirt.
[f. en-1 + girt v.]
1. trans. To gird, encircle with. Also simply.
1590Marlowe Edw. II, v. i, Engirt the temples of his hateful head! 1613Purchas Pilgr. vi. xiv. §1 (R.) The insulting waters..engirting meane while all the townes with a strait siege. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 146 The coat..ingirted with a towell of silke and gold.
2. To surround as a girdle does; to encircle. Also fig.
15..in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 423 So feruent griefe engirts the King of Glory. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 33 This flinty ring that ingirts it. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i. (R.), She prepar'd to cut the wat'ry zone Ingirting Albion. 1742Collins Ode iv. 28 And [God] pour'd the main engirting all.
b. To enclose partially or wholly; to hem in; to envelope.
1627May Lucan iii. 591 They make their hornes t'engirt the adverse fleet. 1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. iii. iv. (1678) 57 The skin is double..ingirting the whole body.
Hence enˈgirting vbl. n., the action of the vb. engirt; concr. that which engirts, the rim.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 17 In the ninth year of the ingirting his anointed brows with the refulgent Ophir circle. 1623Favine Theat. Hon. vi. ix. 159 Another Circle, which made the engirting of the Seale. |
