GARROTTE, GAROTTE, gar-rot', _n._ a Spanish mode of strangling
criminals.--_v.t._ to strangle by a brass collar tightened by a screw,
whose point enters the spinal marrow: to suddenly render insensible by
semi-strangulation, and then to rob:--_pr.p._ garrott'ing, garott'ing;
_pa.p._ garrott'ed, garott'ed.--_ns._ GARROTT'ER, GAROTT'ER, one who
garrottes; GARROTT'ING, GAROTT'ING. [Sp. _garrote_; cf. Fr. _garrot_, a
stick.]
GARRULOUS, gar'[=u]-lus, _adj._ talkative.--_ns._ GARRUL'ITY,
GARR'ULOUSNESS, talkativeness: loquacity.--_adv._ GARR'ULOUSLY. [L.
_garrulus_--_garr[=i]re_, to chatter.]
GARTER, gär't[.e]r, _n._ a band used to tie the stocking to the leg: the
badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the
_Order of the Garter_.--_v.t._ to bind with a garter.--GARTER KING-OF-ARMS,
the chief herald of the Order of the Garter. [O. Fr. _gartier_ (Fr.
_jarretière_)--O. Fr. _garet_ (Fr. _jarret_), the ham of the leg, prob.
Celt. as Bret. _gar_, the shank of the leg.]
GARTH, gärth, _n._ an enclosure or yard: a garden: a weir in a river for
catching fish. [Ice. _garðr_, a court; cf. A.S. _geard_; Ger. _garten_,
yard.]
GARUDA, gär'[=oo]-da, _n._ a Hindu demigod, with the body and legs of a
man, the head and wings of a bird, emblem of strength and speed. [Sans.]