Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GAR'BEL, n.

The plank next the keel of a ship. [See Garboard-streak.]

GAR'BLE, v.t. [Sp. garbillar; It. cribrare, crivellare; Fr. cribler; L. cribro, cribello. Qu. Ar. غَرْبَلَ garbala, or Ch. כרבל, to sift, to bolt. Class Rb, No. 30, 34, 46.]

1. Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
2. To separate; to pick; to cull out. Dryden. Locke.

GAR'BLED, pp.

Sifted; bolted; separated; culled out.

GAR'BLER, n.

1. One who garbles, sifts or separates. A. garbler of spices, is an officer of great antiquity in London.
2. One who picks out, culls or selects.

GAR'BLES, n. [plur.]

The dust, soil or filth, severed from good spices, drugs, &c. Cyc.

GAR'BLING, ppr.

Sifting; separating; sorting; culling.

GAR'BOARD, n.

The garboard plank, in a ship, is the first plank fastened on the keel on the outside. Bailey. Garboard-streak, in a ship, is the first range or streak of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Mar. Dict.

GAR'BOIL, n. [Old Fr. garbouil; It. garbuglio]

Tumult; uproar. [Not used.]

GARD, n. [or v. See GUARD and WARD.]

GAR'DEN, n. [G. garten; W. garth; It. giardino; Sp. jardin; Fr. id.; Port. jardim; Arm. jardd, jardin, or gardd. The first syllable is the Sax. geard, Goth. gards, Eng. yard, an inclosed place. The Saxon is ortgeard, Dan. urtegaard, Sw. örtegård, wortyard, an inclosure for herbs. The Irish is gairdin or garrdha; Hungarian, korth; L. hortus. In Slavonic, gard, Russ. gorod, signifies a town or city, and the derivative verb goroju, to inclose with a hedge. Hence Stuttgard, Novogrod or Novogardia. The primary sense of garden is an inclosed place, and inclosures were originally made with hedges, stakes or palisades. It is probable that in the East, and in the pastoral state, men had little or no inclosed land except such as was fenced for the protection of herbs and fruits, and for villages. See Coxe's Russ. B. 4.]

1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs, is called a flower-garden and that to fruits, is called a fruit-garden. But these uses are sometimes blended.
2. A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden. Lombardy is the garden of Italy. Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage, the tillage used in cultivating gardens.

GAR'DEN, v.i.

To lay out or to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground, to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.

GAR'DEN-ED, pp.

Dressed and cultivated as a garden.

GAR'DEN-ER, n.

One whose occupation is to make, tend and dress a garden.

GAR'DEN-ING, n.

The act of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. Encyc.

GAR'DEN-ING, ppr.

Cultivating or tilling a garden.

GAR'DEN-LESS, a.

Destitute of a garden. Shelley.

GAR'DEN-MOLD, n.

Mold, or rich mellow earth suitable for a garden. Mortimer.

GAR'DEN-PLOT, n.

The plot or plantation of a garden. Milton.

GAR'DEN-STUFF, n.

Plants growing in a garden; vegetables for the table. [A word in popular use.]

GAR'DEN-TIL-LAGE, n.

The tillage or cultivation of a garden.

GAR'DEN-WARE, n.

The produce of gardens. [Not in use.] Mortimer.

GAR'DON, n.

A fish of the roach kind.

GARE, n.

Coarse wool growing on the legs of sheep. Dict.

GAR'FISH, or GAR, n.

A marine fish. In America, the name of several fishes with long, pointed bony snouts, belonging to the genera Lepisosteus and Belone. Haldeman.

GAR'GA-RISM, n. [L. gargarismus; Gr. γαργαριζω, to wash the mouth; allied probably to gorge, the throat.]

A gargle; any liquid preparation used to wash the mouth and throat, to cure inflammations or ulcers, &c. Encyc.