GARB

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Clothing in general.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

4.
n.

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.

5.
n.

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

6.
v.

To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.


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