Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 7
Garb (v. t.) To clothe; array; deck.
These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. -- Tennyson.
Garb (n.) Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: attire, garb, dress].
Garb (v.) Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress].
Garbage (n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
Garbage (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.
Garbed (a.) Dressed; habited; clad.
Garbel (n.) Same as Garboard.
Garbel (v. t.) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
Garbled (imp. & p. p.) of Garble.
Garbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garble.
Garble (n.) 斷章取義，竄改 Refuse; rubbish.
Garble (n. pl.) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
Garble (v. t.) 對…斷章取義；任意竄改；曲解 To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
Garble (v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
Garble (v.) [ T ] 對…斷章取義；任意竄改；曲解 To make words or messages unclear and difficult to understand.
// It's bad when phones garble conversations.
Garbled (a.) （話或資訊）含混不清的，引起誤解的 If words or messages are garbled, they are not clear and are very difficult to understand, often giving a false idea of the facts.
// There was a strange garbled message on my voicemail.
Garbler (n.) One who garbles.
Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Garboil (n.) Tumult; disturbance; disorder.
Garcinia (n.) A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.
Gard (n.) Garden.
Gard (v. & n.) See Guard.
Gardant (a.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.
Garden (n.) 花園；菜園；果園；庭院 [C]；遊樂場；公園 [P] A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
Garden (n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. -- Shak.
Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
{Garden balsam}, An ornamental plant ({Impatiens Balsamina}).
{Garden engine}, A wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
{Garden glass}, A bell glass for covering plants.
{Garden glass}, A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
{Garden house}, A summer house. -- Beau. & Fl.
{Garden house}, A privy. [Southern U.S.]
{Garden husbandry}, The raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
{Garden mold} or {Garden mould}, Rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. -- Mortimer.
{Garden nail}, A cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. -- Knight.
{Garden net}, A net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
{Garden party}, A social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
{Garden plot}, A plot appropriated to a garden.
{Garden pot}, A watering pot.
{Garden pump}, A garden engine; a barrow pump.
{Garden shears}, Large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
{Garden spider}, (Zool.), The diadem spider ({Epeira diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See {Geometric spider}, and {Spider web}.
{Garden stand}, A stand for flower pots.
{Garden stuff}, Vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
{Garden syringe}, A syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
{Garden truck}, Vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
{Garden ware}, Garden truck. [Obs.] -- Mortimer.
{Bear garden}, {Botanic garden}, etc. See under {Bear}, etc.
{Hanging garden}. See under {Hanging}.
{Kitchen garden}, A garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
{Market garden}, A piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
Gardened (imp. & p. p.) of Garden.
Gardening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garden.
Garden (v. i.) 從事園藝，在園中種植 To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
Garden (v. t.) 使成為花園，使園林化 To cultivate as a garden.
Garden (n.) A plot of ground where plants are cultivated.
Garden (n.) The flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden.
Garden (n.) A yard or lawn adjoining a house.
Garden (v.) Work in the garden; "My hobby is gardening."
Garden (n.) A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Garden (n.) A garden is a parcel of a house and passes with it. Br. Feoffm. de terre, 53; 2 Co. 32; Plowd. 171; Co. Litt. 5 b, 56 a, b. But see Moore, 24; Bac. Ab. Grants, I.
Garden (a.) [Z] 花園的；庭院的；生長在園中的，栽培的 Pertaining to, produced in, or suitable for cultivation or use in garden.
// Fresh garden vegetables; garden furniture.
Garden (a.) 普通品種的；普通的，平凡的 Garden-variety.
Compare: Garden-variety
Garden-variety (a.) (North American) (Attributive) Of the usual or ordinary type; commonplace.
‘For garden-variety back problems, your medical doctor, osteopath, or chiropractor can all help.’
Gardener (n.) One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
Gardenia (n.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
Gardening (n.) The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
Gardening (n.) The cultivation of plants [syn: gardening, horticulture].
Gardenless (a.) Destitute of a garden. -- Shelley.
Gardenly (a.) Like a garden. [R.] -- W. Marshall.
Gardenship (n.) Horticulture. [Obs.]
Gardon (n.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id.
Gardyloo (n.) An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh.
Gare (n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.
Garefowl (n.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.
Garfish (n.) (Zool.) A European marine fish ({Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
Garfish (n.) (Zool.) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
Garfish (n.) Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus].
Gargalize (v. t.) To gargle; to rinse. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Garganey (n.) (Zool.) A small European duck ({Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.
Garganey (n.) Small Eurasian teal [syn: garganey, Anas querquedula].
Gargantuan (a.) 龐大的，巨大的 Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
Gargantuan (a.) Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: {elephantine}, {gargantuan}, {giant}, {jumbo}].
Gargarism (n.) (Med.) A gargle.
Gargarize (v. t.) To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Garget (n.) The throat. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Garget (n.) A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.
Garget (n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. -- Youatt.
Garget (n.) (Bot.) See Poke.
Compare: Poke
Poke (n.) (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca ({Phytolacca decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.
Garget (n.) Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous [syn: poke, pigeon berry, garget, scoke, Phytolacca americana].
Gargil (n.) A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
Gargle (n.) See Gargoyle.
Garggled (imp. & p. p.) of Gargle.
Gargling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gargle.
Gargle (v. t.) 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.
Gargle (v. t.) To warble; to sing as if gargling.
Gargle (n.) A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.
Gargol (n.) A distemper in swine; garget.
Gargoulette (n.) A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
Gargoyle (n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
Gargyle (n.) See Gargoyle.
Garibaldi (n.) A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.
Garibaldi (n.) A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.
Garish (a.) Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
Garish (a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.
Garland (n.) The crown of a king.
Garland (n.) 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.
Garland (n.) The top; the thing most prized.
Garland (n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
Garland (n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
Garlanded (imp. & p. p.) of Garland.
Garlanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garland.
Garland (v. t.) To deck with a garland.
Garlandless (a.) Destitute of a garland.
Garlic (n.) 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.
Garlic (n.) A kind of jig or farce.
Garlicky (a.) Like or containing garlic.
Garment (n.) （一件）衣服 [C]；服裝，衣著 [P] Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. -- Matt. ix. 16.
Garment (n.) An article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk."
Garment (v.) (v. t.) 給……穿衣服 [H] Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress].
Garmented (p. a.) Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
Garmenture (n.) Clothing; dress.
Garner (n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
Garnered (imp. & p. p.) of Garner.
Garnering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garner.
Garner (v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Garner (v.) [ T ] (Formal) （通常指做大量工作或經歷很多困難而）收集，積累，獲得 To collect something, usually after much work or with difficulty.
// Coppola garnered several Oscar awards for "The Godfather."
Garnet (n.) (Min.) 石榴石（深紅色寶石）[U] [C]；深紅色 [U] 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.
Note: 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 (Bot.), The red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color.
Garnet brown (Chem.), 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 (n.) (Naut.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.
Clew garnet. See under Clew.
Garnet (n.) Any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive.
Garnet, () A graphical object editor and Macintosh environment.
Garnet, () A user interface development environment for Common Lisp and X11 from The Garnet project team. It helps you create graphical, interactive user interfaces.
Version 2.2 includes the following: a custom object-oriented programming system which uses a prototype-instance model. automatic constraint maintenance allowing properties of objects to depend on properties of other objects and be automatically re-evaluated when the other objects change. The constraints can be arbitrary Lisp expressions. Built-in, high-level input event handling. Support for gesture recognition. Widgets for multi-font, multi-line, mouse-driven text editing. Optional automatic layout of application data into lists, tables, trees or graphs. Automatic generation of PostScript for printing. Support for large-scale applications and data visualisation.
Also supplied are: two complete widget sets, one with a Motif look and feel implemented in Lisp and one with a custom look and feel. Interactive design tools for creating parts of the interface without writing code: Gilt interface builder for creating dialog boxes. Lapidary interactive tool for creating new widgets and for drawing application-specific objects. C32 spreadsheet system for specifying complex constraints.
Not yet available: Jade automatic dialog box creation system.
Marquise interactive tool for specifying behaviours. (1999-07-02)
Garnetiferous (a.) Containing garnets.
Garnierite (n.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
Garnished (imp. & p. p.) of Garnish.
Garnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garnish.
Garnish (v. t.) 裝飾；添加配菜於 To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
All within with flowers was garnished. -- Spenser.
Garnish (v. t.) (Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
Garnish (v. t.) To furnish; to supply.
Garnish (v. t.) To fit with fetters. [Cant] -- Johaon.
Garnish (v. t.) (Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See {Garnishee}, v. t. -- Cowell.
Garnish (n.) [C] 為增加色香味而添加的配菜；裝飾物 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.
Garnish (n.) (Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. such as {parsley}. See {Garnish}, v. t., 2. -- Smart.
Garnish (n.) Fetters. [Cant]
Garnish (n.) 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.
Garnish (n.) Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration.
Garnish (n.) Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment.
Garnish (v.) Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt" [syn: {garnishee}, {garnish}].
Garnish (v.) Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods [syn: {trim}, {garnish}, {dress}].
Garnish (n.) Overlay with stones (2 Chr. 3:6), adorn (Rev. 21:19), deck with garlands (Matt. 23:29), furnish (12:44).
In Job 26:13 (Heb. shiphrah, meaning "brightness"), "By his spirit the heavens are brightness" i.e., are bright, splendid, beautiful.
Garnish (n.). Eng. Law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on his entrance into prison.
Garnishee (n.) (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.
Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order.
Garnisheed (imp. & p. p.) of Garnishee.
Garnisheeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garnishee.
Garnishee (v. t.) (Law) To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.