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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.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

sonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

ss; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

To mark with, or as with, botches. Young Hylas, botched with stains. Garth.

from the world for religious duties. Fitter for a cloister than a crown. Daniel. Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.

rtaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

ired for life, thy servile muse sing. prior. To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day. Garth.

To pout; to look sullen. [Obs.] Garth.

A hag. [Obs.] Garth.

of use; to assist. A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person. Garth. To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.

alm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth.

represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth). -- Line of centers. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See Dead center, under Dead. -- Line of dip (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stra…

To rush out; to issue, or ru Garth.

To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.

Direction conformable to that of another line, Lines that from their parallel decline. Garth.