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Garnish   /gˈɑrnɪʃ/   Listen
verb
Garnish  v. t.  (past & past part. garnished; pres. part. garnishing)  
1.
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. "All within with flowers was garnished."
2.
(Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
3.
To furnish; to supply.
4.
To fit with fetters. (Cant)
5.
(Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.



noun
Garnish  n.  
1.
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated. "So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy." "Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this, and that for use."
2.
(Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment, such as parsley. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
3.
Fetters. (Cant)
4.
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. (Cant)
Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head.






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"Garnish" Quotes from Famous Books



... fro, making her arrangements, which, simple as they were, had a certain dainty quality about them which seemed peculiar to all that Clover did,—twisted a trail of kinnikinnick about the butter-plate, laid a garnish of fresh parsley on the slices of cold beef, and set a glass full of wild crocuses in the middle of the table. Then she returned to the parlor, put the kettle, which had already begun to sing, on the fire, and began to stir and season her oysters, which presently ...
— Clover • Susan Coolidge

... Mac-Guffog. "But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly-shangie [*Quarrel] afterhend, these are the fees I always charge a swell that must have his libken to himsell—Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half-a-guinea a week for a single bed,—and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half-a-crown out of it to Donald Laider that's in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and he'll ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... immortalitie. Her trymest top of all ye see, Garnish the crowne. Her iust renowne Chapter and head, Parts that maintain And woman head Her mayden raigne In te gri tie: In ho nour and with ve ri tie: Her roundnes stand Strengthen the state. By their increase With out de bate Concord ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham

... seas. As yet little has been done beyond making the preliminary surveys, but the day is not probably very distant when fleets will lie at anchor among the islets described in our earlier chapters, or garnish the fine waters of Key West. For a long time it was thought that even frigates would have a difficulty in entering and quitting the port of the latter, but it is said that recent explorations have discovered channels ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

... which, however, thank God, my familiars, the stars, and the red, blue, and golden planets, glance kindly, saying, "Courage, brother! soon thou shaft rise to us, to whom thou belongest!" Yet I will write it: one day men will read, and say, "Come, let us garnish the sepulchre of one immured because his stupid age could not understand!" and then, doubtless, they will go forth to stone the seer on whose tongue lies the noblest secret of the Universe for ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various


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