Garnishee (v. t.) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
Garnisher (n.) One who, or that which, garnishes.
Garnishment (n.) Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
Garnishment (n.) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.
Garnishment (n.) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.
Garnishment (n.) A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.
Garniture (v. t.) That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Garous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
Gar pike () Alt. of Garpike
Garpike () See under Gar.
Garran (n.) See Galloway.
Garret (n.) A turret; a watchtower.
Garret (n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
Garreted (a.) Protected by turrets.
Garreteer (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Garrison (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
Garrison (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
Garrisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Garrison
Garrisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrison
Garrison (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
Garrison (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Garron (n.) Same as Garran.
Garrot (n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
Garrot (n.) The European golden-eye.
Garrote (n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.
Garroted (imp. & p. p.) of Garrote
Garroting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrote
Garrote (v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
Garroter (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Garrulity (n.) Talkativeness; loquacity.
Garrulous (a.) Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
Garrulous (a.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
Garrupa (n.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Garter (n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.
Garter (n.) Same as Bendlet.
Gartered (imp. & p. p.) of Garter
Gartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garter
Garter (v. t.) To bind with a garter.
Garter (v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.
Garth (n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
Garth (n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.
Garth (n.) A hoop or band.
Garum (n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Garvie (n.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
Gases (pl. ) of Gas
Gas (n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state.
Gas (n.) A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.
Gas (n.) Laughing gas.
Gas (n.) Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.
Gasalier (n.) A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Gas-burner (n.) The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
Gascoines (n. pl.) See Gaskins, 1.
Gascon (a.) Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.
Gascon (n.) A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.
Gasconade (n.) A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
Gasconaded (imp. & p. p.) of Gasconade
Gasconading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasconade
Gasconade (v. i.) To boast; to brag; to bluster.
Gasconader (n.) A great boaster; a blusterer.
Gascoynes (n. pl.) Gaskins.
Gaseity (n.) State of being gaseous.
Gaseous (a.) In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.
Gaseous (a.) Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
Gashed (imp. & p. p.) of Gash
Gashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gash
Gash (v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
Gash (n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
Gashful (a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
Gasification (n.) The act or process of converting into gas.
Gasiform (a.) Having a form of gas; gaseous.
Gasified (imp. & p. p.) of Gasify
Gasifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasify
Gasify (v. t.) To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
Gasify (v. i.) To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
Gasket (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
Gasket (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.
Gaskins (n.pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.
Gaskins (n.pl.) Packing of hemp.
Gaskins (n.pl.) A horse's thighs.
Gaslight (n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
Gaslight (n.) A gas jet or burner.
Gasogen (n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
Gasogen (n.) A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.
Gasolene (n.) See Gasoline.
Gasolier (n.) Same as Gasalier.
Gasoline (n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.
Gasometer (n.) An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.
Gasometric (a.) Alt. of Gasometrical
Gasometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
Gasometry (n.) The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
Gasoscope (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.
Gasped (imp. & p. p.) of Gasp
Gasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasp
Gasp (v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
Gasp (v. i.) To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
Gasp (v. t.) To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.