2. To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle,
bandage, etc.
3. To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.
--Milton.
4. To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
I girded thee about with fine linen. --Ezek. xvi.
10.
The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.
--Milton.
5. To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's
self for a contest.
Thou hast girded me with strength. --Ps. xviii.
39.
{To gird on}, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely,
like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast
himself as he that putteth it off. --1 Kings xx.
11.
{To gird up}, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and
strengthen, as with a girdle.
He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. --1
Kings xviii.
46.
Gird up the loins of your mind. --1 Pet. i.
13.
{Girt up}; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for
work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the
long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it
before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or
constantly active; strenuous; striving. ``A severer, more
girt-up way of living.'' --J. C. Shairp.