| 单词 | engird |
| 释义 | engird, v.|ɛnˈgɜːd|
Also 7 ingird. Pa. pple. engirt.
[f. en-1 + gird v.]
trans. To surround with, or as with, a girdle; to encircle, as a girdle does. Also, to engird in.
1566Gascoigne Iocasta ii, in Child Four Old P. (1848) 190 Let cruell discorde beare thee companie, Engirt with snakes. 1623Favine Theat. Hon. i. i. 7 Round about engirt with a frindge of Gold. 1628Hobbes Thucyd. (1822) 139 Paches..arrived at Mitylene and ingirt it with a single wall. 1745W. Thompson Sickness ii. (R.), She saw him smile along the tissu'd clouds..Engirt with cherub wings. a1785Glover Athenaid xxvii. (R.), A sash of tincture bright..Engirds his loins. 1813Wordsw. View fr. Top of Black Comb, Main ocean..visibly engirding Mona's Isle. 1820Moir in Blackw. Mag. VI. 385 The hoary mountain tops..that engird the horizon in. 1851Nichol Archit. Heav. 22 He would manifestly be engirt by heavens having the general aspect of ours.
b. fig.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, Ugly Darkness.. Engirt with tempests, wrapt in pitchy clouds. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 200 My Body round engyrt with miserie. 1798W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 219 Engird their brows With glittering crowns of praise.
Hence enˈgirding ppl. a.
1852D. Moir Defeat Winter viii, Love, with an engirding belt, Hath beautified the solitude. |
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