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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.

To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc. [R.]

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish. [Vt. & Conn.]

of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as…

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

nally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. Shak. Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Dryden.

erb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsle…

ea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. -- S…

A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.

he like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.

he hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]

A veal cutlet variously seasoned garnished, often with lemon, sardines, and capers.