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Garnishment
() Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.
Garnishment
() 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.
Garnishment
() A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.
Garniture
() That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
Garookuh
() A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Garous
() Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
Gar pike
() Alt. of Garpike
Garpike
() See under Gar.
Garran
() See Galloway.
Garret
() A turret; a watchtower.
Garret
() That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
Garreted
() Protected by turrets.
Garreteer
() One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Garreting
() Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Garrison
() A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
Garrison
() A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
Garrisoned
() of Garrison
Garrisoning
() of Garrison
Garrison
() To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
Garrison
() To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Garron
() Same as Garran.
Garrot
() A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
Garrot
() The European golden-eye.
Garrote
() 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.
Garroted
() of Garrote
Garroting
() of Garrote
Garrote
() To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
Garroter
() One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Garrulity
() Talkativeness; loquacity.
Garrulous
() Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
Garrulous
() Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
Garrupa
() One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
Garter
() A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Garter
() 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.
Garter
() Same as Bendlet.
Gartered
() of Garter
Gartering
() of Garter
Garter
() To bind with a garter.
Garter
() To invest with the Order of the Garter.
Garth
() A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
Garth
() A dam or weir for catching fish.
Garth
() A hoop or band.
Garum
() A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Garvie
() The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
Gases
() of Gas
Gas
() An aeriform 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 aeriform state.
Gas
() 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.
Gas
() Laughing gas.
Gas
() Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.
Gasalier
() A chandelier arranged to burn gas.