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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.

To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

eseræum and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant. B. Jonson That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting hanguage, if I may so call it. Bp. Sanderson.

s are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.

n act or course. They who counsel war. Milton. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reson's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton.

Any sort of dress or garb. He comes . . . in the gown of humility. Shak.

External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. As then the guise was for each gentle swain. Spenser. A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination. Burke.

Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." W. Irving.

A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow. Bell and hopper (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained. -- Hopper boy, a rake in…