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Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

See under Gar.

(Aëronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.

An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.

or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.

Dressed; habited; clad.

Same as Garboard.

fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.]

One who garbles.

One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.

Tumult; disturbance; disorder. [Obs.] Shak.

A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.

A boy; fellow; esp., a serving boy or man; a waiter; -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters.

Garden. [Obs.] "Trees of the gard." F. Beaumont.

Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.

See Army organization, above.

ll-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak.

One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

duce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.