Undergird: alternatives and connections

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen…

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.

The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

To pour round; to spread round.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

To gird; to encompass.

To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

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To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

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To fasten by binding; to gird.