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 (CratÊva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong
scent of garlic, and a burning taste.
Gar"lick*y (?), a. Like or containing garlic.
Gar"ment (?), n. [OE. garnement, OF. garnement, garniment, fr. 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.
Gar"ment*ed, p. a. Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a
garment. [Poetic]
A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty.
Shelley.
Gar"men*ture (?), n. Clothing; dress.
Gar"ner (?), n. [OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F.
grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st Grain, and cf. Granary.]
A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
Gar"ner, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnering.]
To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Shak.
Gar"net (?), n. [OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F. grenat, LL.
granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or
seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color
and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See Grain, and cf.
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 (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.
Gar"net, n. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in
or out.
Clew garnet. See under Clew.
Gar`net*if"er*ous (?), a. [1st garnet + -ferous.] (Min.) Containing
garnets.
Gar"ni*er*ite (?), n. [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.
Gar"nish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Garnishing.] [OE. garnischen, garnissen, OF. garnir to provide,
strengthen, prepare, garnish, warn, F. garnir to provide, furnish,
garnish, -- of German origin; cf. OHG. warnn to provide, equip; akin to
G. wahren to watch, E. aware, ware, wary, and cf. also E. warn. See
Wary, -ish, and cf. 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.