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See Gargoyle.

-- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

nthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.

Destitute of a garland. Shelley.

an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

Like or containing garlic.

article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

Clothing; dress.

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Clew garnet. See under Clew.

Containing garnets.

An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.

th ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.

One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.

One who, or that which, garnishes.

ney or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.

That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.