garnishee 
garnishee (gar-ni-she'), n. [< yariiisli + -eel; 
correlative to garnisher, 2.] In law, a person 
warned, at the suit of a creditor plaintiff, not 
to pay money which he owes to, or deliver over 
property which belongs to, the defendant, be- 
cause he is indebted to the plaintiff. 
The garnishee, of course, has, as against the attachment, 
all the defences which would be available to him against 
the defendant, his alleged creditor. Encyc. Brit., III. 51. 
garnishee (gar-ni-she'), v. t. In law, to stop in 
the hands of a third person, by legal process 
(money due or property belonging to the plain- 
tiff's debtor), in order to require it to be paid 
over to plaintiff in satisfaction of his demand : 
as, to garnishee the wages of a debtor, or his 
bank account! 
garnisher (gar'nish-er), n. 1. One who gar- 
nishes or decorates. 2. In law, one who warns 
another against the payment to a creditor of 
money due from the latter to himself. 
garnishment (gar'nish-ment), n. [< garnish + 
-ment.~\ 1. That which garnishes; ornament; 
embellishment. 
Considering the goodly garnishment of this realme by 
the great and wise number of noble lordes and valiant 
knightes, which were suche as no Christian realme for 
the number of them could then shewe the lyke. 
Graf ton, Rich. II., an. 21. 
2. In law. warning; notice given in course 
of proceedings at law to a third person who 
should be brought in or have opportunity to 
come in as a party. More specifically (a) Legal no- 
tice to the agent or attorney of an absconding debtor for 
him to appear in court or give information. (o) A warn- 
ing by legal process requiring the person served with it 
not to pay the money or deliver the property of the de- 
fendant in his hands to the defendant, but to appear and 
answer the plaintiff's suit. (Drake, On Attachments, 451.) 
This proceeding is called in some of the United States 
trustee process; in others, factorizing; in others it is known 
by the more general name of attachment, of which it is one 
form, (c) A process, now obsolete, for charging an heir 
with a debt of his ancestor. See attachment, 1. 
3. A fee. See garnish, n., 5. 
garnish-moneyt (gar'nish-mun"i), n. Money 
paid as a garnish or fee. 
You are content with the ten thousand pound, 
Defalking the four hundred garnish-money 1 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, v. 5. 
garnisont, . A Middle English form of garrison. 
garniture (gar'ni-tur), n. [< P. garniture (= Pr. 
garnidura = It. guarnitura; ML. garnitura), 
furniture, supply, < garnir, furnish, etc.: see 
garnish..'] Anything that garnishes or furnishes, 
or serves for equipment or ornament; outfit; 
adornment. 
They are very assiduous in bestowing upon themselves 
the finest garnitures of art. Addison, Spectator, No. 265. 
Her education in youth was not much attended to; and 
she happily missed all that train of female garniture which 
passeth by the name of accomplishments. 
Lamb, Mackery End. 
garookuh (ga-ro'ku), n. [E. Ind.] A form of 
vessel used on the Persian gulf, and trading 
often as far as the Malabar coast, in length it 
ranges from 50 to 100 feet, and it is remarkable for the 
shortness of the keel, which is only one third the length 
of the boat. Though well formed, it does not equal the 
baggala ; it sails well, but carries only a small cargo, and 
is more suitable for fishing than for trading purposes. 
garote, garoter, etc. See garrote, etc. 
garous (ga'rus), a. [< L. garum, pickle.] Per- 
taining to or resembling garum ; resembling 
pickle made of fish. 
Offensive odour, proceeding partly from its [the bea- 
ver's] food, that being especially fish ; whereof this hu- 
mour may be a garous excretion and olidous separation. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., Hi. 4. 
garpike (gar'plk), n. [< gar^ + pike."] 1. The 
common garfish, Belone vulgaris. 2. A ganoid 
garfish; any fish of the family Lepidosteidce ; a 
gar. Also called bony pike. See cut under gar 1 . 
garpipe (gar'pip), n. [Var. of garpike, simu- 
lating pipe.] Same as garpike. Day. 
garran (gar'an), n. [Also written garron; < 
Gael, and Ir. garran, gearran, a gelding, a work- 
horse, a hack.] A small horse; a Highland 
horse ; a hack. 
He will make theyr cowes and garrans to walke, yf he 
doe noe other mischeif to theyr persons. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
In the Highlands of Scotland, a breed of hardy and very 
serviceable ponies, or garrons, as the natives call them, 
are found in great numbers. Encyc. Brit., I. 385. 
garrapata, n. See garapata. 
garret, > t. A Middle English form of gar%. 
garret 1 (gar'et), n. [Early mod. E. also garet, 
garett; < ME. garett, garette, garite, a watch- 
tower, < OF. garite, F. guerite = Sp. garita = 
Pg. guarita, a place of refuge, place of look- 
out, a watch-tower, < OF. garir, older warir, 
preserve, save, keep, F. guerir, cure, = Pr, garir 
2459 
= OSp. OPg. guarir = It. guarirr, yuerire, < 
Goth, warjatt = OHG. werian, weren, G. icehren, 
defend, = AS. warian, hold, defend, werian, de- 
fend, < ico?r, ware, wary : see ware^, wary.~\ If. 
A lookout ; a watch-tower ; a turret or battle- 
ment. 
He sawe men go vp and downe on the garrettes of the 
gates and walles. Berners, tr. of Froissart'sChron., II. li. 
He did speak them to me in the garret one night, as we 
were scouring my lord of York's armour. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 
2. That part of a house which is on the upper 
floor, immediately under the roof; an attic 
story; especially, the uppermost floor of a 
house under a roof that slopes down at the sides 
or at one side. 
Up to her godly garret after seven, 
There starve [freeze] and pray, for that's the way to 
heaven. Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount, I 21. 
garret 2 (gar'et), v. t. A corruption of gallet. 
garret 3 (gar'et), n. [Origin not ascertained.] 
The color of rotten wood. 
The colour of the shining part of rotten wood, by day- 
light, is in some pieces white, and in some pieces inclining 
to red, which they call the white and red garret. Bacon. 
garretedt (gar'et-ed), a. [< garret 1 + 
Protected by or provided with garrets or turrets. 
The high cliffs are by sea inaccessible round about, sav- 
ing in one only place towards the east, where they proffer 
an uneasy landing place for boats ; which, being fenced 
with a garetted wall, admitteth entrance through a gate. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
A square structure with a round turret at each end, gar- 
retted on the top. Fuller, Worthies, Cornwall. 
garreteer (gar-e-ter'), n. [< garret 1 + -eer, as 
in pamphleteer, etc.] An inhabitant of a gar- 
ret ; hence, an impecunious author. 
Garreteers, whohungeredafterplacesorpensions, racked 
their invention to propagate its spirit by their pamphlets. 
V. Knox, The Spirit of Despotism, 9. 
We will all go in a posse to the bookseller's in Mr. 
Grove's barouche and four show them that we are no 
Grub Street garreteers. Shelley, in Dowden, I. 47. 
garreting, garretting (gar'et-ing), n. Same 
as gallettng. 
garret-master (gar'et-mas"ter), n. [< garrefl, 
in reference to a private shop or factory, + mas- 
ter.] A maker of household furniture on his 
own account who sells his goods to the furni- 
ture-dealers. [Eng.] 
These garret-master* are a class of small "trade-working 
masters '(fch. esa nie as the "chamber-masters "in the shoe 
trade), supplying both capital and labour. 
Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 233. 
garrison (gar'i-sn or -son), . [An alteration of 
garnison, < ME. garnison, garnisoun = D. gar- 
nizoen = G. Dan. Sw. garnison, < OF. garnison, 
F. garnison = Pr. garniso, guamiso = Sp. guar- 
nicion = Pg. gtiarnifSo = It. guarnigione, ML. 
guarnmo(n-), provision, munitions, supplies 
for defense, < OF. garnir, etc., provide, supply, 
furnish, fortify, etc. : see garnish.'] 1. A body 
of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town 
to defend or guard it, or to keep the inhabi- 
tants in subjection. 
We conseile that in thin hous thou sette suffisaunt gar- 
nwoun, so that they may as wel thy body as thin hous de- 
fende. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
Of this Town [Hartleur] he made the Duke of Exeter 
Captain, who left there for his Lieutenant Sir John Fal- 
staffe, with a Garrison of 1500 Men. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 170. 
To the States of Greece 
The Roman People, unconfln'd, restore 
Their countries, cities, liberties, and laws ; 
Taxes remit, and garrisons withdraw. 
Thomson, Liberty, iii. 
2. A fort, castle, or fortified town furnished 
with troops to defend it. 
Whom the old Roman wall so ill confln'd, 
With a new chain of garrisons you bind. Waller. 
A few garrisons at the necks of land, and a fleet to con- 
nect them, and to awe the coast 
Burke, Abridg. of Eng. Hist., i. 4. 
Garrison court martial. See court martial, under 
cor(. Garrison flag. See flarfi. Garrison gin, the 
largest gin used in the artillery for mechanical manoeu- 
vers. See gin*. 
garrison (gar'i-sn or -Son), v. t. [< garrison, 
.] 1. To place troops in, as a fortress, for 
defense ; furnish with soldiers : as, to garrison 
a fort or town. 
The moment in which war begins, . . . the army must 
be augmented, the fleet must be fitted out, the garrisoned 
towns must be put into a posture of defence. 
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, v. 3. 
2. To secure or defend by fortresses manned 
with troops : as, to garrison a conquered terri- 
tory. 3. To put upon garrison duty. 
The seventh he nameth Hippos or Hippion, a city so 
called of a colony of horsemen, there garrisoned by 
Herod, on the east side of the Galilean Sea. 
Kaleigh, Hist. World, II. vii. I 4. 
Garrulax 
garrison-artillery (gar'i-sn-ar-til'e-ri), . See 
siege-artillery, under artillery. 
Garrisonian (gar-i-so'ni-an), a. and n. I. a. 
In U. <S'. hist., pertaining to William Lloyd Gar- 
rison (1804-79), a leading abolitionist. 
II. n. A follower of Garrison in his attack 
upon negro slavery; an extreme abolitionist. 
garrok (gar'ok), . Same as garrot. 
garron (gar'on), n. See garran. 
garrot 1 (gar'ot), n. [Origin not ascertained.] 
A sea-duck of the genus Clangula, subfamily 
Fuligulinai, andfam- 
ily Anatida;. There 
are several species. The 
common garrot, also 
called goldeneye, Is 
Anas or Fuligula clan- 
gula, or Clangula clan- 
gula, vulgaris, or chry- 
.wphthalma, widely dis- 
tributed over the north- 
ern hemisphere. The colors are 
black and white, the head being 
glossed with green, and there is a 
large rounded white spot before 
each eye. The Rocky Mountain 
garrot, also called Barrow's golden- 
eye, is Clangula islandica or bar- 
Head of Rocky Moun- rom, a similar hut rather larger 
tain Garrot (Clangula species, with more of a purplish 
islandica or tar,,). gloss on th( , hea( j a|](1 the eye . 8pot 
creseentic. 
garrot 2 (gar'ot), n. [< F. garrot, < garrotter, 
tie fast: see garrote.] 1. In surg., a compress- 
ing bandage, tightened by twisting a small cyl- 
inder of wood, by which the arteries of a limb 
are compressed for the purpose of suspending 
the flow of blood in cases of hemorrhage, aneu- 
rism, amputation, etc. 2. A quarrel for the 
crossbow. 
garrote, garote (ga-rof), . [Also written 
garrotte, garotte (after F. garrotter, v.); < Sp. 
garrote, a cudgel, a strong stick, the act of ty- 
ing tight, strangulation by means of an iron 
collar (F. garrot, a packing-stick, garrot, with- 
ers), < Sp. Pg. garra, a claw, talon, clutch, = 
Pr. garra, leg, = OF. "garre (> ult. E. garter, 
q. v.), < Bret, gar, garr = W. and Corn, gar, the 
shank of the leg, = Ir. cara, leg.] 1. A mode 
of capital punishment practised in Spain and 
Portugal, formerly by simple strangulation. 
The victim is placed on a stool with a post or stake be- 
hind to which is affixed an iron collar controlled by a 
screw passing through the post ; this collar is made to clasp 
the neck of the victim and is tightened by the action of 
the screw. As the instrument is now operated, the point 
of the screw is caused to protrude and pierce the spinal 
marrow at its junction with the brain, thus causing death. 
He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and 
captured, but escaped the garrote to follow Walker to 
Nicaragua. N. A. Ken., CXXVI. 89. 
2. The instrument by means of which this 
punishment is inflicted. 3. Strangulation by 
any means used in imitation of the garrote, and 
especially as a means of robbery. See garrot- 
ing. 
That done, throwing a cord about his necke, making 
use of one of the corners of the chayre, he gave him the 
garrote, wherewith he was strangled to death. 
Mabbe, The Rogue (1623), i. 266. 
garrote, garote (ga-rof), v. ; pret. and pp. gar- 
roted, garoted, ppr. garroting, garoting. [Also 
written garrotte, garotte, after F. garrotter, pin- 
ion, bind, = Sp. garrotear, cudgel ; from the 
noun.] I. trans. 1. To put to death by means 
of the garrote. 2. To strangle so as to ren- 
der insensible or helpless, generally for the 
purpose of robbery. See garroting. 
The new Cabinet Minister had been garrotted or half 
garrotted, and . . . Phineas Finn . . . had taken the two 
garrotters prisoners. Trollope, Phineas Finn, xxxi. 
II. in trans. To cheat in card-playing by con- 
cealing certain cards at the back of the neck : 
a mode of cheating practised among card- 
sharpers. 
garroter, garoter (ga-rot'er), n. One who com- 
mits the act of garroting. 
garroting, garoting (ga-rot'ing), . The act of 
strangling a person, or compressing his wind- 
pipe until he becomes insensible : practised es- 
pecially in committing highway robbery. This 
crime is usually effected by three accomplices, called in 
England the .fore-stall, or man who walks before the in- 
tended victim ; the back-stall, who walks behind the oper- 
ator and his victim ; and the nasty-man, the actual per- 
petrator of the crime. The purpose of the stalls is to con- 
ceal the crime, give alarm of danger, carry off the booty, 
and facilitate the escape of the nasty-man. 
In those days there had been much garroting in the 
streets, and writers in the Press had advised those who 
walked about at night to go armed with sticks. 
Trollope, Phineas Redux, xlvi. 
(Jarrulax (gar'ij-laks), n. [NL. (Lesson, 1831), 
< L. ffiimilus, chattering: see garrulous."] A 
genus of passerine birds, the jay-thrushes, of 
