garbel2 (garbel)

[Origin obscure. Cf. gar garb1 (gärb), n. [ garbe , gracefulne , board - plank .] The plank next the keel of a comeline , handsomene , = Sp. Pg. garbo , ship. See garboard - strake. gracefulne , gentility, = It. garbo , graceful gar bid get, n. An obsolete form of garbage . ne , pleasing manners, garawi , prep agar bill (gär'bil), n. [ bill1 .] A mer- ration, dre , gear, = AS. gear we , preparation, ganser; a sawbill or fish-duck: so called from dre , ornament, > E. gear , of which garb is the long slender beak. [Local, U. S.] thus a doublet: see gear , gar2 , and yare.] 1t. garbisht, n. and v. An obsolete form of gar- Outward appearance; manner of speech, dre , bage . deportment, etc.; mien; demeanor; hence, garble (gär'bl), v . t .; pret. and pp. garbled , ppr. mode; manner; fashion; style of doing any- IMG:content-2096.png:[blocks in formation] garbling. [Formerly garbel, garbell; All sortes of spices be garbled after the bargaine is made, and they be Moores which you deale with all, which be good people and not ill disposed. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 177. When justice is ref in'd, And corporations garbled to their mind; Then pa ive doctrines shall with glory rise. Walsh, Golden Age Restored. It [to garble] is never used now in its primary sense, and has indeed undergone this further change, that while once to garble was to sift for the purpose of selecting the best, it is now to sift with a view of picking out the worst. Abp. Trench, English Past and Present, vii. Than garbled text or parchment law I own a statute higher. Whittier , A Sabbath Scene. Garbling the coinage, a practice among money-dealers of picking out the new coins of full weight for export or remelting, and pa ing the light ones into circulation. Another technical expre ion is, garbling the coinage, devoting the good, new coins to the melting-pot, and pa ing the old, worn coins into circulation again on every suitable opportunity. Jevons, Money and Mech. of Exchange, p. 81. = Syn. 3. Misquote, etc. (see mutilate ); pervert, misrepresent, falsify.