garbage (garbaj)

[Formerly also garbish, garbidge; a bundle, E. bundle. There can be no con nection with garble, a much later word in E., and one which could not have produced the form garbage.] 1. Originally, the entrails of fowls, and afterward of any animal; now, offal or refuse organic matter in general; especially, the refuse animal and vegetable matter from a kitchen. This fountain was said to grow thick, and savour of gar bine at such time as they belebrated the Olympiads, and IMG:content-2095.png:[blocks in formation] To swallow up the garbage of the time With greedy gullets. B. Jonson , Poetaster, Apol. garb a get (gär'bāj), v. t. [Formerly also gar- bish , garbaige ; garbage , n.] To eviscerate; disembowel; gut; clean by removing the en- trails of. His cooke founde the same ring in the bealy of a fyshe which he garbaiged to dre e for his Lordes diner. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 182. The wilde cats and many dogs that liued on them were famished; and many of them, leauing the woods, came downe to their houses, and to such places where they vse to garbish their fish, and became tame. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 141. garavance (gar-a-vans'), n. [Also calavance; cf. Sp. garbanzo , chick-pea, a sort of pulse much esteemed in Spain, garbantzua , да- rau , grain, + antzua , dry (a word appearing also in anchovy, q. v.).] The chick-pea, Cicer arie- garbellt, v . and n. An obsolete form of garble . tinum. garbe, n. See garb2.