garciont

[ME., OF. garcion, gars on, gar çon, F. garçon, a boy, servant (see garçon ), ML. garcio (n-), etc., a boy.] A boy; a servant. = = pauldron a, Garde-collet. gardin, (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. II. a . Of, pertaining to, or produced in a garden: as, garden implements or plants. And atte this moones Idus is goode houre To make a gardaine hegge, as is beforne I taught. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 81. Glo y purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden - roses. Tennyson, Death of Wellington. Garden husbandry, the careful cultivation of land for profit according to the methods pursued by gardeners, so as to secure the largest po ible production. - Garden white butterfly, the common English name of the white cabbage-butterflies of the genus Pieris. P. rapæ and P. nap i are found in England; P. daplidice, P. calidice, and P. krueperi, in other parts of Europe; and P. rape, P. pro to dice, and P. oleracea are common in North America. All in the larval state feed upon cabbage as well as other Crucifer a. See cut under cabbage - butterfly. garden (gär'dn), v. [ In Rome's poor age, When both her kings and consuls held the plough, Or gardened well. B. Jonson, Cat i line, ii. 1. We farm, we garden , we our poor employ, And much command, though little we enjoy. IMG:content-2102.jpg:[blocks in formation] He hurried on.. up the gardened slope. L. Wallace , Ben-Hur, p. 44. Our English landscape wants no gardening: it cannot be gardened . The Century , XXXVI. 816. garden a get (gär'dn-āj), n. [ garden + -age .] 1. Gardening. He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Garden age . Pepys , Diary, Nov. 5, 1665. 2. The produce of a garden. The street was also appropriated to the sale of fish and garden age. Man , Hist. Reading (1816), p. 147.