garland-flower 
Daphne Cneontm. Also applied to some other 
plants. 
garlandry (gar'land-ri), . [< garland + -ry.} 
Anything wreatfied or made into garlands or 
wreaths. 
The lavished garlandry of woven brown hair amazed me. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xiv. 
garlic (gar'lik), n. [Formerly also garlick, gar- 
like ; < ME. garlek, garlec, garleek, rarely garlik, 
garlike,<.A.S.garledc(=leel.geirlaukr), garlic (so 
called in allusion to the spear-shaped leaves), < 
gar, a spear, + ledc, leek: see gar 1 , gore' 2 , andfeefc. 
The W. garlleg is from E. Cf. charlock, hem- 
lock.'] 1. An onion-like bulbous plant, Allium 
sativum, allied to the leek, A. Porrum. it is a na- 
tive of central Asia, and perhaps of the Mediterranean re- 
gion, was well known to the ancients, and is still a favor- 
ite condiment, especially among the people of southern 
Europe and most Oriental countries. It has a very strong 
and to most persons unused to it an unpleasant odor, and 
an acrid pungent taste. Each bulb is composed of several 
lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common 
membranous coat and easily separable. Used as medicine, 
garlic is a stimulant tonic, and promotes digestion ; it has 
also diuretic and sudorific properties, and is a good ex- 
pectorant. The name is also applied to other species of 
the same genus, as the bear's-garlic, A. ursinum; the 
crow- or field-garlic, A. vineale ; the wild garlic, A. Moly ; 
the wild meadow-garlic of the United States, A. Cana- 
detae, etc. 
Askes after on the wounde 
Thou kest, and dense it, ley on garlic grounde. 
Palladim, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 22. 
Our general was taught by a negro to draw the poyson 
out of his wound by a clove of garlike, whereby he was 
cured. Hakluyt's Voyaget, III. 487. 
Honey new press'd, the sacred flower of wheat, 
And wholesome garlic, crown'd the savoury treat. 
Pope, Iliad, xi. 
2. [Appar. a special use of garlic, 1, of some 
particular origin.] A jig or farce popular at the 
beginning of the seventeenth century. 
And for his action he eclipscth quite 
The jig of garlick or the punk's delight. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
Essential Oil of garlic, a volatile oil found in the garlic- 
bulb and obtained by distillation with water. It is a sul- 
phid of the radical allyl (C :1 H5)oS. Garlic pear. See 
l>tar. 
garlic-eater (gar'lik-e*ter), n. One who eats 
garlic. 
You have made good work, 
You, and your apron-men ; you that stood so much 
Upon the voice of occupation, and 
The breath of garlic-eaters! Shale., Cor., iv. 6. 
garlicky (gar'li-ki), a. [< garlic (garlick) + -y*.~\ 
Like or containing garlic ; smelling of garlic. 
garlic-shrub (gar'lik-shrub), n. Adenocabjmna 
alliacea, a shrubby climber of the West Indies 
and Guiana, resembling a bignonia and charac- 
terized by an odor like that of the onion. 
garlicwoft (gar'lik- wert), . The hedge-garlic, 
Alliaria officiiialis. 
garment (gar'ment), n. [< late ME. garment, 
a reduced form of earlier garnement, garnitnent, 
< OF. garnement, garniment, F. garnement = Pr. 
garnimen = OSp. guarnimiento = It. guarni- 
mento (ML. guarnimentum, garniamcntum), < 
OF. garnir, etc., garnish, adorn, fortify: see 
garnish.} 1. An article of clothing, as a coat, 
a gown, etc. ; anything which serves for cloth- 
ing; a vestment. 
He sente hem forth seluerles in a somer narnetnent, 
With-oute bred and bagge as the bok telleth. 
Fieri Plomnan (C), x. 119. 
No man putteth a piece of new'cloth unto an old gar- 
ment. Mat. ix. 16. 
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, . . . 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 4. 
I am not weary of writing; it is the coarse but durable 
garment of my love. Donne, Letters, xxxvii. 
2. Eccles., the chasuble or casula (especially 
the large early chasuble), as being the largest 
and most important of the ecclesiastical vest- 
ments. 
garment (gar'ment), t). t. [< garment, n.] To 
clothe or cover with or as if with a garment or 
garments : chiefly used in the past participle. 
[Rare.] 
When he [Summer] clothed faire the earth about with 
grene, 
And every tree new garmented, that pleasure was to sene. 
Surrey, Complaint of a Lover. 
A lovely Lady garmented in light. 
Shelley, Witch of Atlas, v. 
garmentless (gar'ment-les), a. [< garment + 
-less.} Without garment or covering. 
Statues which have all the frolic and garmentless glee 
of the bath. W. Colton, Ship and Shore, p. 182. 
garmenture (gar'men-tur), n. [< garment + 
-ure.} Clothes; dress; garments. [Rare.] 
Imagination robes it in her own garmentnre of light. 
O. P. R. Jamcl. 
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garnementt, . The earlier form of garment. 
garnept, n. [Origin obscure.] A small mat. 
A yarnep to bee laide under the pot upon the table to 
save the table-cloth clean, basis. 
Withals, Diet. (ed. 1608), p. 176. 
garner (gar'ner), n. [< ME. garner, gerner, 
rarely greynere, < OF. grenier, transposed ger- 
nier, F. grenier, dial, guernier = Pr. granier = 
Sp. granero = Pg. granel = It. granajo, graiinm, 
< L. granarium, usually in pi. granaria, a grau- 
ary: see granary, and cf. garnery, girnel, etc. 
Cf . garnet*, similarly transposed, and of the same 
ult. origin.] A granary; a building or place 
where grain is stored for preservation; hence, 
a store of anything, especially of knowledge or 
experience : now chiefly in figurative use. 
The foules on the felde, who fynt hem mete at wynter? 
Haue the! no gernere to go to, but god fynt hem alle. 
Piers Plowman (B), vii. 129. 
Earth's increase, foison plenty, 
Barns and garners never empty. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1 (song). 
garner (gar'ner), v. [< garner, n.} I. trans. To 
store in or as if in a granary; hoard: chiefly in 
figurative use. 
But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, 
Where either I must live, or bear no life. 
SAo*., Othello, iv. 2. 
Let thy life garner daily wheat. Lowell, To the Muse. 
Vie garner all the things that pass, 
We harbour all the winds may blow. 
The Antiquary, Jan., 1880, Prol. 
= Syn. To gather, collect, lay in, husband. 
ft. in trans. To grow in quantity or amount; 
accumulate. [Rare.] 
For this alone on Death I wreak 
The wrath that garners in my heart. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxxii. 
garneryt, [A var. of granary, after garner.} 
A garner; a granary. Nares. 
Sir Simon Eyre, draper, major, he built Leaden Hall for 
a '/"--//' //- for the citie, and gave flve thousand markes to 
charitable uses. Taylor, Works. 
garnet 1 (gar'net), n. [< ME. garnet, garnette, 
alsogrenat, < OF. grenat, grenet, F. grenat= Sp. 
Pg. granate = It. granato = D.granaat = G.Dan. 
Sw. granat, < ML. granatus, S:\sogranatimis (sc. 
lajiis, stone), a garnet; prob. so called in refer- 
ence to its fine crimson color (cf. ML. granata, 
alsogranum, the cochineal-insect, and the scar- 
let dye obtained from it the insect being sup- 
posed to be a berry or seed), < L. granum, a 
grain, seed: see grain 1 . Otherwise "so called 
from its resemblance in color and shape to the 
grains or seeds of the pomegranate [L. grana- 
tum: see pomegranate]" (Webster); cf. garnet- 
apple. The ult. source is the same ; granat and 
grenade are doublets.] A common mineral spe- 
cies embracing many varieties, which, while 
conforming to the same general formula, differ 
in composition and hence also in color, specific 
gravity, and fusibility. It generally occurs in dis- 
tinct embedded crystals belonging to the isometric sys- 
tem, the rhombic dodecahedron and trapezohedron being 
the commonest forms. There are also massive granular 
varieties. It is hard, brittle, and more or less transparent. 
The red varieties are most common, but white, yellow, 
green, brown, and black also occur. The prominent va- 
rieties are : (1) the lime-alumina garnet, including the 
^rossular garnet, succinite, and cinnamon-stone or hesson- 
ite ; (2) the magnesia-alumina garnet, including pyrope ; 
(3) the iron-alumina garnet, including the almandin or the 
precious garnet and much common garnet; (4) the man- 
ganese-alumina garnet or spessartite; (5) the lime-iron 
garnet, sometimes called in general andradite, including 
haplome, colophonite, topazolite, demantoid, and mela- 
nite ; (6) the lime-chrome garnet or ouvarovite. Garnets 
are commonly found in gneiss, mica schist, granite, and 
hornblende rocks. Eclogite is a rock consisting largely of 
garnet. The precious garnet is transparent and deep- 
red, includes some pyrope, and is prized as a gem, as is 
also the brilliant bright-green demantoid from Siberia. 
White garnet, a name given (in 1776) to leucite, because 
of the similarity of its crystals to a common form of gar- 
net. 
garnet 2 (gar'net), n. [Origin obscure.] Naut. : 
(a) A sort of tackle fixed to the mainstay, and 
used to hoist in and out the cargo. Totten. (ft) 
A clue-garnet, (c) A pendant rove through a 
hole in the spar-deck, hooked to a pendent 
tackle, and used in mounting or dismounting 
guns on the gun-deck. Also called gurnet. 
garnet-applet,". [ME. garnet-appille: seegar- 
iift.} The pomegranate. Lydgate. 
garnet-berry (gar'net-ber'i), n. The red cur- 
rant, Bibes rubrum. 
garnet-blende (gar'net-blend), n. Zinc-blende, 
a sulphid of zinc. See sphalerite, 
garnet-hinge (gar'net-hinj), n. A species of 
hinge resembling the letter T laid horizontally: 
thus, I . Called in Scotland a cross-tailed hinge. 
garnetiferous (gar-ne-tif'e-rus), a. [< garnet* 
+ -i-ferous, < L. ferre = E. tear 1 .] Containing 
garnished 
garnets, as a rock-matrix : as, garnetiferous am- 
phibolites. 
garnet-rock (gar'net-rok). n. An almost mas- 
sive rock composed essentially of garnet, often 
occurring interstratified in the older crystalline 
schists. 
garnet-work (giir'net-werk), n. Decoration by 
means of masses of garnets, with or without 
the use of carbuncles, as in brooches, girdles, 
and similar inexpensive jewelry sometimes in 
fashion. 
garnierite (gar'nier-it), n. [After M. Gamier, 
a French geologist.] A hydrous silicate of 
nickel and magnesium, occurring massive and 
of an apple-green color in New Caledonia. It 
is an important ore of nickej. A similar min- 
eral occurs in Oregon. 
garnish (giir'nish), v. t. [< ME. garnischen (also 
warnishen: see warnish), < OF. garniss-, stem 
of certain parts of garnir, guarnir, older war- 
nir, F. garnir (> D. garneren = G. garniren = 
Dan. garnere = Sw. garnera, trim) = Pr. gar- 
nir, guarnir = OSp. guarnis, Sp. Pg. gttarnecer 
= It. guarnire, guernire (ML. garnire, warnire), 
avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish, of OLG. 
origin: AS. icearnian, warnian, take care, warn, 
OS. wernian, refuse, etc. : see warn. Hence 
ME. garniaon, E. garrison.'] If. To fortify; 
defend. 
He markyth and garnytshed hym wyth the sygne of the 
crosse. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 167. 
2. To adorn ; decorate with ornaments or ap- 
pendages ; set off. 
A wise man neuer brings his bidden Guest 
Into his Parlour, till his Room be drest, 
Garnisht with Lights, and Tables neatly spred 
Be with full dishes well-nigh furnished. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. 
Letters in very fair grammatical Latin, garnished with 
quotations from Ovid and Lucan and the laws canon and 
civil. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 145. 
3. To fit with fetters. Johnson. [Cant.] 4. 
To furnish ; supply ; garrison. 
But er thow go, do garnysshe thy forteresses of euery 
Citee, and euery castell, with vitayle and men, and atuffe 
of other artrye. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 115. 
In front of his camp he sunk a deep trench, which, in 
the saturated soil, speedily tilled with water ; and he gar* 
nished it at each extremity with a strong redoubt. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. 
5. In cookery, to ornament, as a dish, with some- 
thing laid round it. 
No man lards salt pork with orange-peel, 
Or garnishes his lamb with spitchcock'd eel. 
W. King, Art of Cookery. 
6. In law, to warn ; give notice. Specifically (o) 
To summon in, so as to take part in litigation already pend- 
ing between others. (6) To attach, as money due or prop- 
erty belonging to a debtor, while it is in the hands of a 
third person, by warning the latter not to pay it over or 
surrender it. See garnishment. = Syn. 2. To embellish, 
deck, beautify. 
garnish (gar'nish), n. [< garnish, .] 1. Or- 
nament ; something added for embellishment ; 
decoration ; dress ; array. 
So you are, sweet, 
Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. 
Shak., M. of V., ii. 6. 
Matter and Figure they [poets] produce ; 
For Garnish this, and that for Use. 
Prior, Alma, i. 
And truth too fair to need the garnish of a lie. 
Whittier, Tent on the Beach. 
2. In cookery, something placed round o added 
to a principal dish at table, either for embel- 
lishment merely or for use as a relish. 
Portly meat, 
Bearing, substantial stuff, and fit for hunger, 
I do beseech you, hostess, first ; then some light garnish, 
Two pheasants in a dish. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Pilgrimage, ii. 4. 
3. A set of dishes, plates, and the like, for 
table use. 
At whiche departing the king gaue to the ailmyral of 
Fraunce a garnishe of gilt vessell, a payre of couered ba- 
sons gilt. Hall, Hen. VIII., an. 10. 
4. Fetters. [Cant.] 5. A fee, as to a ser- 
vant ; specifically, money formerly paid by a 
prisoner on his going to prison as a fee to fel- 
low-prisoners : now illegal. 
The Counters are cheated of Prisoners, to the great dam- 
mage of those that shoulde haue their mornings draught 
out of the Garnish. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 28. 
There is always some little trifle given to prisoners, they 
call garnish ; we of the Bx>ad are above it. 
Steele, Lying Lover, iv. 1. 
garnish-bolt (gar'nish-bolt), n. A bolt having 
a chamfered or faceted head. 
garnished (gar'nisht), a. In her. : (a) Orna- 
mented : said of a bearing. (6) Armed : said 
of a human limb used as a bearing. 
