gar 
Broad-nosed Gar ( Lcpidosteus flatystomtts). 
and Mexico. Silver gar, a garfish, bill-fish, or needle- 
fish of the family Belonidte, Tylosurus longirostris, abnn- 
dant from Maine to Texas, about 4 feet long, of a greenish 
color with silvery lateral band. See cut under Belonidce. 
gar' 2 (gar), v. t. ; pret. and pp. garred or gart, ppr. 
flarring. [< ME. garrcn, gerren, garen, another 
form (after Icel. gora = Sw. <7ora = Dan. gjore, 
make, cause, do) of ME. garwen, garewien, ga- 
ren, yaren, < AS. gearwian, rarely gerwan, make 
ready, prepare, procure, = OS. garuwian, ger- 
leean, girwian = OHG. garawian, garwen, gari- 
wen, prepare, MHG. garwen, gerwen, make 
ready, prepare, equip, clothe, dress leather, G. 
gerben (= Dan. garve = Sw. garfaa), dress lea- 
ther, tan, curry, = Icel. gora, etc., as above, < 
AS. gearu, gearo, E. yare, ready, = OHG. garo 
= Icel. gorr, ready : see garb 1 , gear, and yare, 
a. and .] To cause ; make ; force ; compel. 
[Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
Gregorie the grete clerk sort write in bokes 
The ruele of alle religious ryghtful and obedient. 
Piers Plowman (C), vi. 147. 
Telle me men, emang vs thre, 
Whatt garret yow stare thus sturdely? 
York Playt, p. 120. 
So matter did she make of nought, 
To stirre up strife, and garre them disagree. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. T. 19. 
Get warmly to your feet 
An' gar them hear it. 
Burns, Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. 
O. A. R. An abbreviation of Grand Army of 
the Republic. See republic. 
garanceuz (ga-ron-se'), . [F., < garance, 
madder.] A product obtained by treating the 
waste madder of the dye-houses, which still 
contains a certain quantity of alizarin and 
other coloring matters, with sulphuric acid, 
to remove lime, magnesia, etc. It is adapted 
for dyeing red and black, but does not afford 
a good purple. 
garancin, garancine (gar'an-sin), . [< F. ga- 
rance = Sp. grama = Pg. garanca (ML. garan- 
tia, varantia), madder; origin unknown.] The 
product obtained by treating pulverized mad- 
der, previously exhausted with water, with con- 
centrated sulphuric acid at 100 C. (212 F.), 
and again washing with water. The residue thus 
obtained is found to yield better results in dyeing than 
madder itself, the colors produced by it being more bril- 
liant and requiring less after-treatment, while the parts 
of the fabric desired to be kept white attract hardly any 
color. Garancin style, in dyeing, same as madder stijlr 
(which see, under madder). 
garangan (ga-rang'gau), . [E. Ind.] The Ma- 
lay mongoose or ichneumon, Herpestes javani- 
cits, of Java, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsu- 
la, abounding in the teak-forests, and preying 
upon small reptiles, birds, and quadrupeds, 
garapata, garrapata (gar- a- pa 'ta), n. [S. 
Amer.] The Spanish- American name of any 
tick of the family Ixodida;; also, especially, of 
the sheep-tick, a dipterous insect, Melophagus 
ovinus. 
garavance (gar-a-vans'), [Also calavance; 
cf . Sp. garbanzo, chick-pea, a sort of pulse much 
esteemed in Spain, < Basque garbantzua, < go- 
ran, grain, -I- antzua, dry (a word appearing also 
in anchovy, q. v.).] The chick-pea, Cicer arie- 
tinum. 
garb 1 (garb), n. [< OF. garbe, gracefulness, 
comeliness, handsomeness, = Sp. Pg. garbo, 
gracefulness, gentility, = It. garbo, graceful- 
ness, pleasing manners, < OHG. garawi, prepa- 
ration, dress, gear, = AS. gearwe, preparation, 
dress, ornament, > E. gear, of which garb is 
thus a doublet: see gear, gar"*, and yare.'] If. 
Outward appearance ; manner of speech, dress, 
deportment, etc.; mien; demeanor; hence, 
mode; manner; fashion; style of doing any- 
thing. 
And with a lisping garb this most rare man 
Speaks French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian. 
Drayton, The Owl. 
First, for your garb, it must be grave and serious, 
Very reserved and locked : not tell a secret 
On any terms, not to your father. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, iv. 1. 
Pansanias upon these hopes grew more insolent than 
before, and began to live after the Persian garbe. 
Abp. (Tssher, Annals, an. 3529. 
Observe 
With what a comely garb he walks, and how 
He bends his subtle body. 
Shirley, Love in a Maze, i. 2. 
2454 
2. Fashion or mode of dress, or the dress itself; 
dress; costume, especially as befitting or pe- 
culiar to some particular position or station in 
life, or characteristic of a class or period : as, 
dressed in his official garb; in the garb of old 
Gaul. 
All his Attendants were in a very haudsom garb of 
black silk, all wearing those small black Boots and Caps. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 419. 
Here am I, too, in the pious band, 
In the garb of a barefooted Carmelite dressed ; 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, v. 
Syn. 2. Apparel, garment*, raiment, attire, habili- 
ments, costume. 
garb 1 (garb), v. t. [< garb 1 , .] To dress; 
clothe; array. 
These black dog- Dons 
Garb themselves bravely. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, 111. 1. 
The greater number present are women ; they are very 
simply, almost savagely, garbed. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 215. 
garb 2 , garbe (garb), n. [< OF. garbe, jarbe, 
F. gerbe = Pr. Sp. garba, < OHG. garba, MHG. 
G. garbe = OS. garbha = D. garf, garve, a sheaf, 
prop, a handful; perhaps ult. akin to Skt. 
^ garbh, seize.] A sheaf or bundle, as of grain 
or arrows : obsolete except in certain specific 
applications. In heraldry, a garb is a sheaf of any kind 
of grain, but specifically a sheaf of wheat When otherthan 
wheat, the kind must be expressed. Formerly, a garb of 
arrows was a bundle of 24 arrows. A garb of steel consists 
of 30 blocks or ingots. Also gerbe. 
Great Eusham's fertile glebe what tongue hath not ex- 
toll'd? 
As though to her alone belong'd the garb of gold. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xiii. 370. 
garbage (giir'baj), . [Formerly also garbish, 
garbidge; < ME. garbage, the entrails of fowls ; 
origin unknown. The form is like OF. garbage, 
aerbage, ML. garbagium, a tribute or tax paid 
in sheaves, < OF. garbe, ML. garba, a sheaf (see 
garb 2 ); there maybe a connection similar to 
that shown in G. bundel, the entrails of fish, lit. 
a bundle, = E. bundle. There can be no con- 
nection with garble, a much later word in E., 
and one which could not have produced the 
form garbage.] 1. Originally, the entrails of 
fowls, and afterward of any animal ; now, offal 
or refuse organic matter in general; especially, 
the refuse animal and vegetable matter from a 
kitchen. 
This fountain was said to grow thick, and savour of gar- 
liidge, at such time as they celebrated the Olympiads, and 
denied the river with the bloud and entrails of the sacri- 
fice. Sajutyt, Travailes, p. 188. 
Hence 2. Any worthless, offensive matter. 
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 
Will sate itself in a celestial bed, 
And prey on garbage. Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 
To swallow up the garbage of the time 
With greedy gullets. B. Jotuon, Poetaster, Apol. 
garbage! (gar'baj), r. t. [Formerly also gar- 
bish, garbaige; < garbage, .] To eviscerate; 
disembowel ; gut ; clean by removing the en- 
trails of. 
His cooke founde the same ring in the bealy of a fyshe 
which he garbaiged to dresse for his Lordes diner. 
t~i/ti/i. tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 182. 
The wilde cats and many dogs that liued on them were 
famished ; and many of them, leauing the woods, came 
downe to their houses, and to such places where they vse 
to garbish their fish, and became tame. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 141. 
garbe. . See garb 2 . 
garbeUt, and n. An obsolete form of garble. 
garbel 2 (gar'bel), . [Origin obscure. Cf.gar- 
board-plank.] The plank next the keel of a 
ship. See garboard-stralce. 
garbidget, . An obsolete form of garbage. 
garbill (gar'bil), n. [< gar* + MW.] A mer- 
ganser ; a sawbill or fish-duck : so called from 
the long slender beak. [Local, U. S.] 
garbisht, and v. An obsolete form of gar- 
bage. 
garble (gar'bl), r. t. ; pret. and pp. garbled, ppr. 
garbling. [Formerly garbel, garbell ; < OF. 
"garbeier (not recorded), transposed grabeller, 
sift (spices), examine precisely (cf. gerbele, gar- 
bele, garbelle, spice, prob. garbled spice), = It. 
garbellare = Sp. garbillar (cf. ML. garbellare), 
sift, garble; prob., through Sp., of Ar. origin: 
< Sp. garbillo, a coarse sieve, < Ar. ghirbal, Pers. 
gharbil, also girbdl, a sieve. Cf . Ar. gharbalat, 
sifting, searching.] If. To sift or bolt; free 
from dross or dirt. 
All sortes of spices be garbled after the bargaine is 
made, and they be Moores which you deale withall, which 
be good people and not ill disposed. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 177. 
garboard-strake 
Hence 2. To pick out the fine or valuable 
parts of; cull out and select the best or most 
suitable parts or specimens of ; sort out ; select 
and assort, rejecting the bad or least suitable : 
as, to garble spices ; to garble coins. See gar- 
bling the coinage, below. [Now only in tech- 
nical use.] 
I fell, with some remorse, upon garbling my library. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 46. 
He [Dr. Gwinne] with seven others were appointed com- 
missioners ... [in 1620] for narUing tobacco. 
Ward, Hist. Gresham College, p. 264. 
Silver coin is considered to be sufficiently worn to jus- 
tify its withdrawal from circulation when the impressions 
are indistinct, and the coin is carefully garbled or assorted 
by the banks collecting it, before it is sent back for re- 
coinage. Rep. of Sec. of ^reasury, 1886, p. 330. 
3. To sort out parts of for a purpose, especial- 
ly a sinister purpose; mutilate so as to give 
a false impression; sophisticate; corrupt: as, 
a garbled account of an affair; a garbled text or 
writing. 
When justice is refin'd, 
And corporations garbled to their mind ; 
Then passive doctrines shall with glory rise. 
Walsh, Golden Age Restored. 
It [to garble] is never used now in its primary sense, 
and has indeed undergone this further change, that while 
once to garble was to sift for the purpose of selecting the 
best, it is now to sift with a view of picking out the worst. 
Abp. Trench, English Past and Present, vii. 
Than garbled text or parchment law 
I own a statute higher. 
Whittitr, A Sabbath Scene. 
Garbling the coinage, a practice among money -dealers 
of picking out the new coins of full weight for export or 
remelting, and passing the light ones into circulation. 
Another technical expression is, garbling the coinage, 
devoting the good, new coins to the melting-pot, and pass- 
ing the old, worn coins into circulation again on every 
suitable opportunity. 
Jernns, Money and Mech. of Exchange, p. 81. 
= 8yn. 3. Misquote, etc. (see mutilate); pervert, misrep- 
resent, falsify. 
garblet (gar'bl), n. [< garble, e.] 1. Anything 
that has been sifted, or from which the coarse 
parts have been removed. 
And thereby [by avoirdupois weight] are weighed all 
kind of grocerie wares, physical! drugs, . . . and all other 
commodities not before named (as it seemeth), but espe- 
cially everything which beareth the name of gartiel, and 
whereof issueth a refuse or waste. 
M. Dalton, Country Justice (1620). 
2. Refuse separated from goods, as spices, 
drugs, etc. : in the following passage applied to 
a low fellow. Compare trash in a similar use. 
How did the bishop's wife believe 
On this most sacrilegious slave? 
Did not the lady smile upon the garble } 
Wolcott, Peter Pindar. 
Garble of nutmeg, mace, which consists of the dried 
aril or covering of the seed of the nutmeg. 
Garble of nutmegs from Banda. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 277. 
garbler (gar 'bier), n. 1. One who garbles, 
sifts, or separates: as, the garbler of spices 
(a former officer in London who looked after 
the purity of drugs and spices). Hence 2. 
One who culls out or selects to serve a pur- 
pose ; one who mutilates by selecting the worst 
and not the best; one who sophisticates or 
corrupts: as, a garbler of an account or state- 
ment. 
A farther secret in this clause . . . may best be discov- 
ered by the first projectors, or at least the garblers of it. 
Swift, Examiner, No. IB. 
garbling (gar'bling), . [Verbal n. of garble, 
.] 1. Picking out; sorting. 2. pi. The worst 
part or refuse of a staple commodity. 3. The 
act or practice of falsifying what has been 
said or written by partial or misleading quota- 
tion. 
garboard-plank (gar'bord-plangk), n. [< gar- 
(uncertain: cf. garbeP) + board + plank.'] 
Nant., the plank fastened next the keel on the 
outside of a ship's bottom. 
garboard-strake (gar'bord-strak), . Naut., 
the first range or strake of planks laid on a 
G, G, garboard-strakes; f, frame; A' 
