Word Meanings - GIRDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GIRDING
  That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.
• INSTEAD
  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii.
• GIRDER
  One who girds; a satirist.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• GIRD
  1. A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson. 2. A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. I thank thee for that gird, good
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• SACKCLOTHED
  Clothed in sackcloth.
• 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
• SACKCLOTH
  Linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• UNGIRD
  To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.
• ENGIRD
  To gird; to encompass. Shak.
• OVERGIRD
  To gird too closely.
• UNDERGIRD
  To blind below; to gird round the bottom. They used helps, undergirding the ship. Acts xxvii. 17.
• BEGIRD
  1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird. 2. To surround as with a band; to encompass.
• BEGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle.