Your ShelfYour Projects
Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Garnish

Gär'/nish, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. GARNISHED (gär/nished); p. pr. & vb. n. GARNISHING.] [Fr. & Pr. garnir, O. Sp. guarnir, N. Sp. guarnecer, It. guarnire, guernire; O. Fr. guarnir, warnir, to warn, protect, from A-S. warnian, to take care, beware, to warn, O. H. Ger. warnôn, to fortify, admonish, N. H. Ger. warnen.]

Sense 1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

All within with flowers was garnished. Spencer.

Sense 2. To ornament, as a dish with something laid about it; to furnish, as a fort with troops; to hang, as it were to adorn, with fetters. [Colloq.]

Sense 3. (Law.) To warn; to give notice to. See GARNISHEE. Cowell.

Găr'nish, n.

noun

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 garnish of a lovely boy. Shak.

Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this, and that for use. Prior.

Sense 2. (Cookery.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. Smart.

Sense 3. (Jails.) (a.) Fetters. (b.) An entrance-fee demanded by the old prisoners of one just committed to jail. [Cant.] Grose.