garreteer

[Eng. garret; -eer.] One who lives in a garret. (Applied to poor authors.) "Garreteers, who were never weary of calling the cousin of the Earls of Manchester and Sandwich an upstart."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxv. garrulous găr'-rět-ing, s . [GARRET, v .] Small splinters of stone inserted in the joints of coarse masonry. găr-ri-şön, s. [Fr. garnison .] [GARNISON.] Military : 1. A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified place to defend it from the enemy, or to keep the people around in subjection. "Taxes remit, and garrisons withdraw." Thomson: Liberty, iii. 272. 2. A fort or fortified place manned with soldiers, guns, . "A few garrisons at the necks of land, and a fleet to connect them, and to awe the coast." - Burke : Abridge . ment of English History , bk. i., ch. iv. 3. The state of being stationed in a fort or tortified place for its defense; a doing duty in a garrison. "Some of them that are laid in garrison will do no great hurt to the enemies."- Spenser : State of Ireland. 4. Winter quarters for troops. găr-ri-şön, v . t . [GARRISON, 8.] 1. To place troops in, as in a fort or fortified place; to man with troops. "Lest the enemy should have garrisoned those places before we came thither."- Ludlow : Memoirs, viii. 307. 2. To defend or secure with garrisons; as, to garrison a country. 3. To place in a state of defense; to fortify. "Melgar made some show of resistance, garrisoned his house, and menaced the rabble with a shower of grenades."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xxiv.