BEGINNER
Be*gin"ner, n.
Defn: One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.
BEGINNING
Be*gin"ning, n.
1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.
2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8.
3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden.
4. Enterprise. "To hinder our beginnings." Shak.
Syn. — Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation.
BEGIRD
Be*gird", v. t. [imp. Begirt, Begirded; p. p. Begirt; p. pr. & vb. n.
Begirding.] Etym: [AS. begyrdan (akin to Goth. bigairdan); pref. be-
+ gyrdan to gird.]
1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.