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n 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.

The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

m land or real property. Wharton. He hath made us spend much good. Chaucer. Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice. Shak. Dress goods, Dry goods, etc. See in the Vocabulary. -- Goods engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.] -- Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.] -- Goods wagon…

Having no goods. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Goods; furniture. [Obs.]

s for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. Knight.

A kind of French fancy dress goods. Knight.

stinguished from net profits. Abbott. -- Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat, or net, weight.

A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.

A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

ave pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.

or the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present…

Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.

street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets. His works were hawked in every street. Swift.

To sell goods by outcry in the street. [Obs.] Hudibras.

chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. -- Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelma…

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper. South.