garboilt (garboil)

[OF. garbouil, a hurly burly, great stir, = Sp. garbullo, a crowd, multitude, It. garbuglio, a disorder, tumult. Cf. It. gar a bull are, rave (Florio), deceive, defraud. Origin uncertain; the It. gar a bull are seems to begar a, strife, + L. bullire, It. bulicare, boil: see boill.] Tumult; uproar; disorder; disturbance; commotion. All Greece stood in marvellous garboil at that time, and the state of the A then i ans specially in great danger. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 278. One of their company... hath seene in one day sometimes 14. slaine in a garboile . Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 395. Many garboils pa ed through his fancy before he could Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. be persuaded Zelmane was other than a woman. IMG:content-2100.jpg:[blocks in formation]