Definition of "begirds" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of begird. (verb)

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• "They are but the southern outposts of that forest army which begirds Hudson's Bay, and spreads its gloomy barrier of the same trees around the dominions of the Ice King, while it is the only forest to be met with in all the Mississippi Valley."