garble, garbel, garbell

t. [Old Fr. garbeler, grabeller =to garbell spices, also to ex. amine precisely, sift nearly ( Cotgrave ); Sp. garbil lar to sift; Ital. gar bell are = to garbell wares ( Florio ), from Sp. garbillo = a sieve or sifter, from Pers. gharbil =a sieve; Arab. ghirbál. ( Skeat. )] *1. To sift or cleanse corn from dust or other foreign bodies; to bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts from the coarse and worthle . "To garble , to cleanse from dro and dirt, as grocers do their spices, to pick or cull out."- Phillips : The New World of Words. *2. To pick and choose, to select quite fairly. "The protectors and proctors whereof claimed a privi. lege to themselves, to garble the live pigs in the markets of the city."- Fuller : Worthies. 3. To select or pick out such parts as may suit a particular purpose; to sophisticate; to mutilate so as to convey a false impre ion. "But you, who fathers and traditions take, And garble some, and some you quite forsake." Dryden: Hind and Panther , ii. 226. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; garden *gar-ble, s . [GARBLE, v .] 1. Anything which has been sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been removed. 2. Garbage; the coarse or refuse parts picked out from goods, drugs, .; refuse. 3. A low, mean fellow. "Did not the lady smile upon the garble?" Wolcott: P. Pindar. gar'-bler, s. [Eng. garbl (e); -er.] *1. One who garbles, sifts or cleanses from coarse or worthle matters; spec if. a public official in London, England, who looked after the purity of drugs, spices, . 2. One who garbles, mutilates, or sophisticates anything by picking out such parts as suit his particular purpose. "A farther secret in this clause may best be discovered by the projectors, or at least the garblers of it."- Swift : Examiner , No. 19.