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3. The top; the thing most prized. Shak.
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4. A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
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They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.
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5. (Naut.) (a) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in. (b) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
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Garland (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garlanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Garlanding.] To deck with a garland. B. Jonson.
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Garlandless, a. Destitute of a garland. Shelley.
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Garlic (?), n. [OE. garlek, AS. gārleác; gar spear, lance + leác leek. See , n., and .] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
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2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.] Taylor (1630).
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Coloq. Garlic mustard , a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic. -- Coloq. Garlic pear tree , a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.
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Garlicky (?), a. Like or containing garlic.
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Garment (?), n. [OE. garnement, OF. garnement, garniment, fr. garnir to garnish. See .] Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
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No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
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Garmented, p. a. Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic]
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A lovely lady garmented in light
From her own beauty. Shelley.
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Garmenture (?), n. Clothing; dress.
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Garner (?), n. [OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F. grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st , and cf. .] A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
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Garner, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnering.] To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure. Shak.
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Garnet (?), n. [OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F. grenat, LL. granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See , and cf. , .] (Min.) A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.
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☞ There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was, in part, the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate.
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Coloq. Garnet berry (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color. -- Coloq. Garnet brown (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.
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Garnet, n. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
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Coloq. Clew garnet . See under .
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Garnetiferous (?), a. [1st garnet + -ferous.] (Min.) Containing garnets.
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Garnierite (?), n. [Named after the French geologist Garnier.] (Min.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
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Garnish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnishing.] [OE. garnischen, garnissen, OF. garnir to provide, strengthen, prepare, garnish, warn, F. garnir to provide, furnish, garnish, -- of German origin; cf. OHG. warnōn to provide, equip; akin to G. wahren to watch, E. aware, ware, wary, and cf. also E. warn. See , , and cf. , .] 1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
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All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.
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2. (Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
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3. To furnish; to supply.
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4. To fit with fetters. [Cant] Johnson.
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5. (Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See , v. t. Cowell.
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Garnish, n. 1. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
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So are you, sweet,
Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. Shak.
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Matter and figure they produce;
For garnish this, and that for use. Prior.
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2. (Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment, such as parsley. See , v. t., 2. Smart.
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3. Fetters. [Cant]
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4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. [Cant] Fielding.
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Coloq. Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.
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Garnishee (?), n. (Law) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.
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☞ The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order.
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Garnishee, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnisheed (-ēd); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnisheeing.] (Law) (a) To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish. (b) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
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Garnisher (?), n. One who, or that which, garnishes.
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Garnishment (?), n. [Cf. OF. garnissement protection, guarantee, warning.] 1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.
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2. (Law) (a) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. (b) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.
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3. A fee. See , n., 4.
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Garniture (?), n. [F. garniture. See , v. t.] That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
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The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.
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Garookuh (?), n. A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
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Garous (?), a. [From .] Pertaining to, or resembling, garum. Sir T. Browne.

Gar pike or Garpike. (Zoöl.) See under .
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Garran (?), n. [Gael. garrán, gearrán, gelding, work horse, hack.] (Zoöl.) See . [Scot. garron or gerron. Jamieson.]
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Garret (?), n. [OE. garite, garette, watchtower, place of lookout, OF. garite, also meaning, a place of refuge, F. guérite a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, fr. OF. garir to preserve, save, defend, F. guérir to cure; of German origin; cf. OHG. werian to protect, defend, hinder, G. wehren, akin to Goth. warjan to hinder, and akin to E. weir, or perhaps to wary. See , and cf. .] 1. A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.]
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He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. Ld. Berners.
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2. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
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The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. Macaulay.
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Garreted, a. Protected by turrets. [Obs.] R. Carew.
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Garreteer (?), n. One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.
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Garreting (?), n. Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.
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Garrison (?), n. [OE. garnisoun, F. garnison garrison, in OF. & OE. also, provision, munitions, from garnir to garnish. See .] (Mil.) (a) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. (b) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
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Coloq. In garrison , in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.
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Garrison, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garrisoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garrisoning.] (Mil.) (a) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. (b) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
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Garron (?), n. Same as . [Scot.]
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Garrot (?), n. [F. Cf. .] (Surg.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
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Garrot, n. (Zoöl.) The European golden-eye.
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Garrote (?), n. [Sp. garrote, from garra claw, talon, of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. & W. gar leg, ham, shank. Cf. stick, .] A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct.
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2. The instrument by means of which the garrote{1} is inflicted.
Syn. -- garrote, garotte, iron collar.
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3. Hence: A short length of rope or other instrument used to strangle a person.
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Garrote, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garroted; p. pr. & vb. n. Garroting.] To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
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garroter (?), n. One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
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Garrulinae prop. n. A subfamily of the crow family, including the jays.
Syn. -- subfamily Garrulinae.
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garrulity (?), n. [L. garrulitas: cf. F. garrulité.] Talkativeness; loquacity.
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Garrulous (?), a. [L. garrulus, fr. garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. � voice, � to speak, sing. Cf. .] 1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
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The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.
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2. (Zoöl.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.

Syn. -- , , . A garrulous person indulges in long, prosy talk, with frequent repetitions and lengthened details; talkative implies simply a great desire to talk; and loquacious a great flow of words at command. A child is talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in his dotage is garrulous.

-- Garrulously, adv. -- Garrulousness, n.
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Garrulus prop. n. The type genus of the Garrulinae, conmprising the Old World jays.
Syn. -- genus Garrulus.
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Garrupa (?), n. [Prob. fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. the fish.] (Zoöl.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See .
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Garter (?), n. [OE. gartier, F. jarretière, fr. OF. garet bend of the knee, F. jarret; akin to Sp. garra claw, Prov. garra leg. See .] 1. A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
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2. The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.
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3. (Her.) Same as .
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Coloq. Garter fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the genus Lepidopus, having a long, flat body, like the blade of a sword; the scabbard fish. -- Coloq. Garter king-at-arms , the chief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. -- Coloq. Garter snake (Zoöl.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color.
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Garter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gartered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gartering.] 1. To bind with a garter.
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He . . . could not see to garter his hose. Shak.
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2. To invest with the Order of the Garter. T. Warton.
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Garter stitch. The simplest stitch in knitting.
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Garth (gärth), n. [Icel. garðr yard. See .] 1. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
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A clapper clapping in a garth
To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.
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2. A dam or weir for catching fish.
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Garth, n. [ .] A hoop or band. [Prov. Eng.]
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Garuda prop. n. (Hinduism) supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
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Garum (gārŭm), n. [L., fr. Gr. garos.] A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
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Garvie (?), n. (Zoöl.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Gas (găs), n.; pl. Gases (găsĕz). [Invented by the chemist Van Helmont of Brussels, who died in 1644.] 1. An aëriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aëriform state.
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2. (Popular Usage) (a) A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes. (b) Laughing gas. (c) Any irrespirable aëriform fluid.
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3. same as ; -- a shortened form. Also, the accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle; used in the term “ step on the gas”.
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4. the accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle; used in the term “ step on the gas”.
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5. Same as .
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6. an exceptionally enjoyable event; a good time; as, The concert was a gas. [slang]
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☞ Gas is often used adjectively or in combination; as, gas fitter or gasfitter; gas meter or gas-meter, etc.
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Air gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing air through some volatile hydrocarbon, as the lighter petroleums. The air is so saturated with combustible vapor as to be a convenient illuminating and heating agent. -- Gas battery (Elec.), a form of voltaic battery, in which gases, especially hydrogen and oxygen, are the active agents. -- Gas carbon, Gas coke, etc. See under Carbon, Coke, etc. -- Gas coal, a bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high percentage of volatile matters, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas. R. W. Raymond. -- Gas engine, an engine in which the motion of the piston is produced by the combustion or sudden production or expansion of gas; -- especially, an engine in which an explosive mixture of gas and air is forced into the working cylinder and ignited there by a gas flame or an electric spark.Prev Next

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