Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio. Shak.

To slay him and to girden off his head. Chaucer.

Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. Shak.

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. Shak.

That Nyseian isle,
Girt with the River Triton. Milton.

I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10.

The Son . . . appeared
Girt with omnipotence. Milton.

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.