Godwin.
Gap"-toothed` (?), a. Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.
Gar (?), n. [Prob. AS. gr dart, spear, lance. The name is applied to
the fish on account of its long and slender body and pointed head. Cf.
Goad, Gore, v.] (Zoˆl.) (a) Any slender marine fish of the genera
Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish. (b) The gar pike. See Alligator gar
(under Alligator), and Gar pike.
Gar pike, or Garpike (Zoˆl.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the
genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers
of temperate and tropical America.
Gar, v. t. [Of Scand. origin. See Gear, n.] To cause; to make. [Obs. or
Scot.] Spenser.
Gar"an*cin (?; 104), n. [F. garance madder, LL. garantia.] (Chem.) An
extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of
alizarin.
Garb (?), n. [OF. garbe looks, countenance, grace, ornament, fr. OHG.
garaw, garw, ornament, dress. akin to E. gear. See Gear, n.] 1. (a)
Clothing in general. (b) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any
person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a
clergyman or a judge. (c) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman
in the 16th century.
2. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character;
looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.
You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb,
he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Shak.
Garb (?), n. [F. gerbe, OF. also garbe, OHG. garba, G. garbe; cf. Skr.
grbh to seize, E. grab.] (Her.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless
otherwise specified).
Garb, v. t. To clothe; array; deck.
These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely.
Tennyson.
Gar"bage (?; 48), n. [OE. also garbash, perh. orig., that which is
purged or cleansed away; cf. OF. garber to make fine, neat, OHG.
garawan to make ready, prepare, akin to E. garb dress; or perh. for
garbleage, fr. garble; or cf. OF. garbage tax on sheaves, E. garb
sheaf.] Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or
vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting,
or loathsome. Grainger.
Gar"bage, v. t. To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are
garbaged." Holland.
Garbed (?), a. Dressed; habited; clad.
Gar"bel (?), n. (Naut.) Same as Garboard.
Gar"bel, n. [Cf. Garble, v. t.] Anything sifted, or from which the
coarse parts have been taken. [Obs.]
Gar"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Garbling.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to
examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp.
garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of
cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf. E. Discern); or
perh. rather from Ar. gharbl, gharbil, sieve.] 1. 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. [Obs.]
2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to
pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
Gar"ble, n. 1. Refuse; rubbish. [Obs.] Wolcott.
2. pl. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called
garblings.
Gar"bler (?), n. One who garbles.
Gar"board (?), n. (Naut.) One of the planks next the keel on the
outside, which form a garboard strake.
Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on
a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.
Gar"boil (?), n. [OF. garbouil; cf. Sp. garbullo, It. garbuglio; of
uncertain origin; the last part is perh. fr. L. bullire to boil, E.
boil.] Tumult; disturbance; disorder. [Obs.] Shak.
||Gar*cin"i*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) 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. [See Garde, Yard] Garden. [Obs.] "Trees of the gard." F.
Beaumont.
Gard, v. & n. See Guard.
Gar"dant (?), a. [F. See Guardant.] (Her.) Turning the head towards the
spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.
Gar"den (g‰r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin,
of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See
Yard an inclosure.] 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the
cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.