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Word Meanings - ENGIRDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

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  • ENCLOSE
    To inclose. See Inclose.
  • ENGIRDLE
    To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
  • ENCOMPASSMENT
    The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
  • ENVIRONS
    The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
  • SURROUND
    To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
  • SURROUNDING
    Inclosing; encircling.
  • ENCOMPASS
    To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J.
  • GIRDLESTEAD
    1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
  • ENVIRON
    To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
  • GIRDLER
    An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
  • ENCIRCLE
    To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.
  • BEGIRD
    1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird. 2. To surround as with a band; to encompass.
  • ENCIRCLET
    A small circle; a ring. Sir P. Sidney.
  • GIRDLE
    A griddle.
  • BEGIRDLE
    To surround as with a girdle.
  • ENVIRONMENT
    1. Act of environing; state of being environed. 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment,
  • SEA GIRDLES
    A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
  • DISENCLOSE
    See DISINCLOSE

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