Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 8
Garnishee (v. t.) (Law) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
Garnishee (n.) A wage earner who is served with a garnishment.
Garnishee (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].
Garnishee, () Practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and he has had notice of such attachment; he is so called because he has had warning or notice of the attachment.
Garnishee, () From the time of the notice of the attachment, the garnishee is bound to keep the property in his hands to answer the plaintiff's claim, until the attachment is dissolved, or he is otherwise discharged. Vide Serg. on Att. 88 to 110; Com. Dig. Attachment, E.
Garnishee, () There are garnishees also in the action of detinue. They are persons against whom process is awarded, at the prayer of the defendant, to warn them to come in and interplead with the plaintiff. Bro. Abr. Detinue, passim.
Garnisher (n.) One who, or that which, garnishes.
Garnishment (n.) Ornament; embellishment; decoration. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Garnishment (n.) (Law) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.
Garnishment (n.) (Law) 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 (n.) A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.
Compare: Trustee
Trustee (n.) (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
Trustee process (Law), A process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]
Garnishment (n.) A court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee.
Garnishment. () A warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is not a party, for the information of the court, and explaining a cause.
For example, in the practice of Pennsylvania, when an attachment issues against a debtor, in order to secure to the plaintiff a claim due by a, third person to such debtor, notice is given to such third person, which notice is a garnishment, and he is called the garnishee.
Garnishment. () In detinue, the defendant cannot have a sci. fac. to garnish a third person unless he confess the possession of the chattel or thing demanded. Bro. Abr. Garnishment, 1, 5. And when the garnishee comes in, he cannot vary or depart from the allegation of the defendant in his prayer of garnishment.
The plaintiff does not declare de novo against the garnishee; but the garnishee, if he appears in due time, may have oyer of the original declaration to which he pleads. See Bro. Abr. Garnishee and Garnishment, pl. 8, and this title, passim.
Garniture (v. t.) That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. -- Beattie.
Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Garous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, garum. -- Sir T. Browne. Gar pike
Gar pike () Alt. of Garpike.
Garpike () (Zool.) See under Gar.
Gar (n.) (Zool.) (a) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
Gar (n.) (Zool.) (b) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
Gar pike, or Garpike (Zool.), A large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.
Pike (n.) (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
Pike (n.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. -- Beau. & Fl.
Pike (n.) A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Tusser.
Pike (n.) A pick. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright. Raymond.
Pike (n.) A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
Pike (n.) A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Pike (n.) A turnpike; a toll bar. -- Dickens.
Pike (n.) (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), Any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
Pike pole, A long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), A finback whale of the North Atlantic ({Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), The lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.) The garfish.
Sea pike (Zool.) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.
Sea pike (Zool.) (c) The merluce.
Compare: Merluce
Merluce (n.) (Zool.) The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.
Garran (n.) See Galloway.
Garret (n.) A turret; a watchtower.
Garret (n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
Garreted (a.) Protected by turrets.
Garreteer (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Garrison (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
Garrison (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
Garrisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Garrison.
Garrisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrison.
Garrison (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
Garrison (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Garron (n.) Same as Garran.
Garrot (n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
Garrot (n.) The European golden-eye.
Garrote (n.) 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 (imp. & p. p.) of Garrote.
Garroting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrote.
Garrote (v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
Garroter (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Garrulity (n.) Talkativeness; loquacity.
Garrulous (a.) Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
Garrulous (a.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
Garrupa (n.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Garter (n.) 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 (n.) Same as Bendlet.
Garter (n.) [ C ] （尤指舊時使用的）吊襪帶 A piece of elastic (= material that stretches) used, especially in the past, for holding up a stocking or sock.
Garter (n.) [ C ] (US) (UK suspender) 吊襪帶 A type of button that fastens onto a woman's stockings to hold them up.
Gartered (imp. & p. p.) of Garter.
Gartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garter.
Garter (v. t.) To bind with a garter.
Garter (v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.
Garth (n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
Garth (n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.
Garth (n.) A hoop or band.
Garum (n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Garvie (n.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
Gases (n. pl. ) of Gas.
Gas (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) Laughing gas.
Gas (n.) Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.
Gasalier (n.) A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Gas-burner (n.) The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
Gascoines (n. pl.) See Gaskins, 1.
Gascon (a.) Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.
Gascon (n.) A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.
Gasconade (n.) A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
Gasconaded (imp. & p. p.) of Gasconade.
Gasconading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasconade.
Gasconade (v. i.) To boast; to brag; to bluster.
Gasconader (n.) A great boaster; a blusterer.
Gascoynes (n. pl.) Gaskins.
Gaseity (n.) State of being gaseous.
Gaseous (a.) In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.
Gaseous (a.) Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
Gashed (imp. & p. p.) of Gash.
Gashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gash.
Gash (v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
Gash (n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
Gash (n.) [ C ] （尤指皮膚上）深長的傷口，大而深的切口 A long, deep cut, especially in the skin.
Gash (v.) [ T ] （尤指皮膚上）造成深長的傷口，大而深的切口 To make a long, deep cut in something, especially the skin on a part of the body.
// She slipped on a rock and gashed her knee.
Gashful (a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
Gasification (n.) The act or process of converting into gas.
Gasiform (a.) Having a form of gas; gaseous.
Gasified (imp. & p. p.) of Gasify.
Gasifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasify.
Gasify (v. t.) To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
Gasify (v. i.) To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
Gasket (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
Gasket (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.
Gaskins (n. pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.
Gaskins (n. pl.) Packing of hemp.
Gaskins (n. pl.) A horse's thighs.
Gaslight (n.) 瓦斯燈；煤氣燈 The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
Gaslight (n.) A gas jet or burner.
Gaslight (n.) Light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
Gaslighting (n.) 煤氣燈效應 Psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.
Gasogen (n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
Gasogen (n.) A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.
Gasolene (n.) See Gasoline.
Gasolier (n.) Same as Gasalier.
Gasoline (n.) 汽油 [U] A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.
Gasometer (n.) 瓦斯罐；【化】氣體計量器 An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required. Gasometric
Gasometer (n.) A meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe [syn: gas meter, gasometer].
Gasometer (n.) A large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel [syn: gas holder, gasometer].
Gasometric (a.) Alt. of Gasometrical.
Gasometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
Gasometry (n.) The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. -- Coxe.
Gasoscope (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.
Gasped (imp. & p. p.) of Gasp.
Gasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasp.
Gasp (v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
She gasps and struggles hard for life. -- Lloyd.
Gasp (v. i.) To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain. -- Spenser.
Gasp (v. t.) To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.
And with short sobs he gasps away his breath. -- Dryden.