engirtt (engert)

t. [For engird, altered through influence of its pp. engirt.] To encircle; engird. A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow;... So white a friend engirts so white a foe. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 364. eng i scope, n. See engyscope . IMG:content-0493.png:[blocks in formation] The man that moc he hony eteth his mawe it engleymeth. Piers Plowman (B), xv. 56. II. in trans. To stick, or stick fast. That noon offes white Englayme uppon the rootes of her tonnge. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 26.