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ymb-gyrdan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ymb-gyrdan, p. de.
of clothing,
to gird about,
to put a girdle round
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  • Ic embgyrde cingo and accingo and

    succingo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 28, 5 ; Zup. 173, 17.
  • Hé ymbgyrde hine

    praecinxit se,

      Jn. Skt. Lind. Rush. 13, 4.
  • Ymbgyrdaþ eówre lendena, Anglia viii. 322, 19.
  • Ymbgyrde wé úre lendena,

      323, 27.
  • Ymbgyrded

    amictus.

      Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 14, 51.
  • Ymbgyrd

    circumamicta,

      Ps. Spl. T. 44, 15.
  • His lendena wǽron ymbgirde,

      L. Ælfc. P. 17 ; Th. ii. 370, 12.
  • 'Beón eówre lendena ymbgyrde.' On ðám ymbgyrdum lendenum is se mægðhád tó understandenne. Homl. Th. ii. 564, 25.
to serve as a girdle
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  • Ymbgyrde hine gyrdilse sóðfæstnises

    circumcinxit eam zona justitiae,

      Rtl. 79, 5.
to surround, encompass, enclose
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  • Ymbgyrdeþ

    ambit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 61.
  • Mid ðyssum gemǽrum hi synd útan ymbgyrde,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 396, 3.
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v. embe-gyrdan.
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v.  embe-gyrdan.
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