garnet (garnet)

[Origin obscure.] Naut.: ( a ) A sort of tackle fixed to the mainstay, and used to hoist in and out the cargo. Totten. (b) A clue-garnet. (c) A pendant rove through a hole in the spar-deck, hooked to a pendent tackle, and used in mounting or dismounting guns on the gun-deck. Also called gurnet. garnet-applet, n. [ ME.garnet - appille: see gar net.] The pomegranate. Lydgate. garnet-berry (gär'net-ber"i), n. The red currant, Ribes rubrum. garnet-blende (gär'net-blend), n. Zine-blende, a sulphid of zinc. See sphalerite. garnet-hinge (gär'net-hinj), n. A species of hinge resembling the letter T laid horizontally: thus,. Called in Scotland a cro - tailed hinge. garnetiferous (gär-ne-tif'e-rus), a. [ A wise man neuer brings his bidden Guest Into his Parlour, till his Room be drest, Garnisht with Lights, and Tables neatly spred Be with full dishes well-nigh furnished. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. Letters in very fair grammatical Latin, garnished with quotations from Ovid and Lucan and the laws canon and civil. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 145. 3. To fit with fetters. Johnson. [Cant.]-4. To furnish; supply; garrison. But er thow go, do garny he thy fortere es of enery Citee, and enery castell, with vitayle and men, and stuffe of other artrye. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), i. 115. In front of his camp he sunk a deep trench, which, in the saturated soil, speedily filled with water: and he gar nished it at each extremity with a strong redoubt. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. 5. In cookery, to ornament, as a dish, with something laid round it. No man lards salt pork with orange-peel, Or garnishes his lamb with spitchcock'd eel. W. King , Art of Cookery. 6. In law, to warn; give notice. Specifically-(a) To summon in, so as to take part in litigation already pending between others. (b) To attach, as money due or property belonging to a debtor, while it is in the hands of a third person, by warning the latter not to pay it over or surrender it. See garnishment. = Syn. 2. To embellish, deck, beautify. garnish (garnish), [ garnish , v.] 1. Ornament; something added for embellishment; decoration; dre ; array. So you are, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. Shak., M. of V., ii. 6. Matter and Figure they [poets] produce; For Garnish this, and that for Use. Prior , Alma, i. And truth too fair to need the garnish of a lie. Whittier, Tent on the Beach. 2. In cookery , something placed round or added to a principal dish at table, either for embel- lishment merely or for use as a relish. Portly meat, Bearing, substantial stuff, and fit for hunger, I do beseech you, hoste , first; then some light garnish , Two pheasants in a dish. Fletcher (and another ), Love's Pilgrimage, ii. 4. 3. A set of dishes, plates, and the like, for table use. At whiche departing the king gaue to the admyral of Fraunce a garni she of gilt ve ell, a payre of couered basons gilt. Hall , Hen. VIII., an. 10, 4. Fetters. [Cant.] -5. A fee, as to a servant; specifically, money formerly paid by a prisoner on his going to prison as a fee to fellow-prisoners: now illegal. The Counters are cheated of Prisoners, to the great dammage of those that shoulde haue their mornings draught out of the Garnish, Dekker , Seven Deadly Sins, p. 28. There is always some little trifle given to prisoners, they call garnish ; we of the Road are above it. Steele , Lying Lover, iv. 1.