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Pertaining to, or resembling, garum. Sir T. Browne.

See Galloway. [Scot. garron or gerron. Jamieson.]

A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.] He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. Ld. Berners.

Protected by turrets. [Obs.] R. Carew.

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.

A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.

Same as Garran. [Scot.]

A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

Talkativeness; loquacity.

ing much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

ishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

The simplest stitch in knitting.

A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.

A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

The spart; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).