Garganey Gar"ga·ney noun (Zoology) A small European duck ( Anas querquedula ); -- called also cricket teal , and summer teal .

Gargantuan Gar·gan"tu·an adjective [ From Gargantua , an allegorical hero of Rabelais.] Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Gargarism Gar"ga·rism noun [ French gargarisme , Latin gargarisma . See Gargarize .] (Medicine) A gargle.

Gargarize Gar"ga·rize transitive verb [ French gargarizare , from Greek ....] To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Garget Garget noun [ Middle English garget , gargate , throat, Old French gargate . Confer Gorge . The etymol. of senses 2, 3, & 4 is not certain.] 1. The throat. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

2. A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

3. A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. Youatt.

4. (Botany) See Poke .

Gargil Gar"gil noun [ Confer Garget , Gargoyle .] A distemper in geese, affecting the head.

Gargle Gar"gle noun (Architecture) See Gargoyle .

Gargle Gar"gle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garggled , present participle & verbal noun Gargling ] [ French gargouiller to dabble, paddle, gargle. Confer Gargoyle , Gurgle .] 1. To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.

2. To warble; to sing as if gargling [ Obsolete] Waller.

Gargle Gar"gle noun A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.

Gargol Gar"gol noun [ Confer Gargil .] A distemper in swine; garget. Mortimer.

Gargoulette Gar`gou·lette" noun [ French] A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

Gargoyle Gar"goyle noun [ Middle English garguilie , gargouille , confer Spanish gárgola , probably from the same source as French gorge throat, influenced by Latin gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and confer Gargle , Gargarize .] (Architecture) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [ Written also gargle , gargyle , and gurgoyle .]

Gargyle Gar"gyle noun (Architecture) See Gargoyle .

Garibaldi Ga`ri·bal"di noun 1. A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi .

2. (Zoology) A California market fish ( Pomancentrus rubicundus ) of a deep scarlet color.

Garish Gar"ish adjective [ Confer Middle English gauren to stare; of uncertain origin. Confer gairish .] 1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. " In . . . garish colors." Asham. " The garish day." J. H. Newman.

Garish like the laughters of drunkenness.

Jer. Taylor.

2. Gay to extravagance; flighty.

It makes the mind loose and garish .

South.

-- Gar"ish*ly , adverb -- Garish*ness , noun Jer. Taylor.

Garland Gar"land noun [ Middle English garland , gerlond , Old French garlande , French guirlande ; of uncertain origin; confer Old High German wiara , wiera , crown, pure gold, Middle High German wieren to adorn.]

1. The crown of a king. [ Obsolete] Graffon.

2. A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

3. The top; the thing most prized. Shak.

4. A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.

They [ ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands .

Percy.

5. (Nautical) (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.

Garland Gar"land transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garlanded ; present participle & verbal noun Garlanding .] To deck with a garland. B. Jonson.

Garlandless Gar"land·less adjective Destitute of a garland. Shelley.

Garlic Gar"lic noun [ Middle English garlek , Anglo-Saxon gārleác ; gar spear, lance + leác leek. See Gar , noun , and Leek .] 1. (Botany) 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.

2. A kind of jig or farce. [ Obsolete] Taylor (1630).

Garlic mustard , a European plant of the Mustard family ( Alliaria officinalis ) which has a strong smell of garlic. -- Garlic pear tree , a tree in Jamaica ( Cratæva gynandra ), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

Garlicky Gar"lick·y adjective Like or containing garlic.

Garment Gar"ment noun [ Middle English garnement , Old French garnement , garniment , from garnir to garnish. See Garnish .] Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment .

Matt. ix. 16.

Garmented Gar"ment·ed p. adjective Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [ Poetic]

A lovely lady garmented in light
From her own beauty.

Shelley.

Garmenture Gar"men·ture noun Clothing; dress.

Garner Gar"ner noun [ Middle English garner , gerner , greiner , Old French gernier , grenier , French grenier , from Latin granarium , from granum . See 1st Grain , and confer Granary .] A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

Garner Gar"ner transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garnered ; present participle & verbal noun Garnering .] To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure. Shak.

Garnet Gar"net noun [ Middle English gernet , grenat , Old French grenet , grenat , French grenat , Late Latin granatus , from Latin granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or seeds, from granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See Grain , and confer Grenade , Pomegranate .] (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.

» 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.

Garnet berry (Botany) , the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color. -- Garnet brown (Chemistry) , 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.

Garnet Gar"net noun [ Etymol. unknown.] (Nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

Clew garnet . See under Clew .

Garnetiferous Gar`net·if"er·ous adjective [ 1st garnet + -ferous .] (Min.) Containing garnets.

Garnierite Gar"ni·er·ite noun [ 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.

Garnish Gar"nish transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garnished ; present participle & verbal noun Garnishing .] [ Middle English garnischen , garnissen , Old French garnir to provide, strengthen, prepare, garnish, warn, French garnir to provide, furnish, garnish, -- of German origin; confer Old High German warnōn to provide, equip; akin to German wahren to watch, English aware , ware , wary , and confer also English warn . See Wary , -ish , and confer Garment , Garrison .] 1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

All within with flowers was garnished .

Spenser.

2. (Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

3. To furnish; to supply.

4. To fit with fetters. [ Cant] Johnson.

5. (Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee , transitive verb Cowell.

Garnish Gar"nish noun 1. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

So are you, sweet,
Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

Shak.

Matter and figure they produce;
For garnish this, and that for use.

Prior.

2. (Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish , transitive verb , 2. Smart.

3. Fetters. [ Cant]

4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. [ Cant] Fielding.

Garnish bolt (Carp.) , a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.

Garnishee Gar`nish·ee" noun (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.

» The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order .

Garnishee Gar`nish·ee" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garnisheed (-ēd); present participle & verbal noun 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.

Garnisher Gar"nish·er noun One who, or that which, garnishes.

Garnishment Gar"nish·ment noun [ Confer Old French garnissement protection, guarantee, warning.] 1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.

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.

3. A fee. See Garnish , noun , 4.

Garniture Gar"ni·ture noun [ French garniture . See Garnish , transitive verb ] That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.

The pomp of groves and garniture of fields.

Beattie.

Garookuh Ga·roo"kuh noun A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

Garous Ga"rous adjective [ From Garum .] Pertaining to, or resembling, garum. Sir T. Browne.

Garran Gar"ran noun [ Gael. garrán , gearrán , gelding, work horse, hack.] (Zoology) See Galloway . [ Scot. garron or gerron . Jamieson. ]

Garret Gar"ret noun [ Middle English garite , garette , watchtower, place of lookout, Old French garite , also meaning, a place of refuge, French guérite a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, from Old French garir to preserve, save, defend, French guérir to cure; of German origin; confer Old High German werian to protect, defend, hinder, German wehren , akin to Goth. warjan to hinder, and akin to English weir , or perhaps to wary . See Weir , and confer Guerite .] 1. A turret; a watchtower. [ Obsolete]

He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls.

Ld. Berners.

2. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome.

Macaulay.

Garreted Gar"ret·ed adjective Protected by turrets. [ Obsolete] R. Carew.

Garreteer Gar`ret·eer" noun One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Garreting Gar"ret·ing noun Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.

Garrison Gar"ri·son noun [ Middle English garnisoun , French garnison garrison, in Old French & Middle English also, provision, munitions, from garnir to garnish. See Garnish .] (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.

In garrison , in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.

Garrison Gar"ri·son transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garrisoned ; present participle & verbal noun 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.

Garron Gar"ron noun Same as Garran . [ Scot.]

Garrot Gar"rot noun [ French Confer Garrote .] (Surg.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

Garrot Gar"rot noun (Zoology) The European golden-eye.

Garrote Gar·rote" noun [ Spanish garrote , from garra claw, talon, of Celtic origin; confer Armor. & W. gar leg, ham, shank. Confer Garrot stick, Garter .] A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.

Garrote Gar·rote" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Garroted ; present participle & verbal noun 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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