Definition of "begird" []

• To encircle with or as if with a band. (verb-transitive)

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• "Vnd do eins tages war, do hatt si grosse begird únsern herren ze empfahen."
• "Chammath, -- and on another, the most fruitful country Gennesaret adjacent, -- did every way begird this city, when it was built, with pleasure and delight."
• "Next day Sabinus drew up his army in view of the enemy, on ground equal to both; to try, if elated with their success by night, they would venture a battle: and, when they still kept within the fortress, or on the cluster of hills, he began to begird them with a siege; and strengthening his old lines and adding new, enclosed a circuit of four miles."