Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

GAR'GA-RIZE, v.t. [Fr. gargariser; L. gargarizo; Gr. γαργαριζω.]

To wash or rinse the mouth with any medicated liquor. Bacon.

GAR'GET, n. [See Gorge.]

A distemper in cattle, consisting in a swelling of the throat and the neighboring parts. Encyc.

GAR'GIL, n.

A distemper in geese, which stops the head and often proves fatal. Encyc.

GAR'GLE, n.

Any liquid preparation for washing the mouth and throat. Wiseman.

GAR'GLE, v.t. [Fr. gargouiller, to paddle or dabble; It. gargagliare, to murmur; Eng. to gurgle; D. gorgelen; G. gurgeln; allied to gorge, gurges.]

1. To wash the throat and mouth with a liquid preparation, which is kept from descending into the stomach by a gentle expiration of air.
2. To warble; to play in the throat. [Unusual.] Waller.

GAR'GLED, pp.

Washed, as the throat.

GAR'GLING, ppr.

Washing, as the throat.

GAR'GLI-ON, n.

An exsudation of nervous juice from a bruise, which indurates into a tumor. Quincy.

GAR'GOL, n.

A distemper in swine. Mortimer.

GA'RISH, a. [See GAIRISH.]