garnisher (garnisher)

1. One who garnishes or decorates.-2. In law, one who warns money due from the latter to himself. of + another against the payment to a creditor garnishment (gär'nish-ment), n. [ Considering the goodly garnishment of this real me by the great and wise number of noble lordes and valiant knightes, which were suche as no Christian real me the number of them could then she we the lyke. Grafton, Rich. II., an. 21. 2. In law, warning; notice given in course of proceedings at law to a third person who should be brought in or have opportunity to come in as a party. More specifically - ( a ) Legal notice to the agent or attorney of an absconding debtor for him appear in court information. (b) A warn ing by legal proce requiring the person served with it not to pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to the defendant, but to appear and answer the plaintiff's suit. ( Drake, On Attachments, § 451.) This proceeding is called in some of the United States trustee proce ; in others, factorizing; in others it is known by the more general name of attachment, of which it is one form. (c) A proce , now obsolete, for charging an heir with a debt of his ancestor. See attachment, 1. IMG:content-2113.jpg:[blocks in formation] = OSp. OPg. guarir = It. guarire, guerire, ment. siege- artillery, under artillery. Garrison i an (gar-i-sō'ni-an), a. and n. I. a. In U. S. hist., pertaining to William Lloyd Garrison (1804-79), a leading abolitionist. II. n. A follower of Garrison in his attack upon negro slavery; an extreme abolitionist. garron (gar'on), n. garrot (gar'ot), n. A sea-duck of the He sawe men go vp and downe on the garrettes of the gates and walles. Berners , tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. li. garrok (gar'ok), n . He did speak them to me in the garret one night, as we were scouring my lord of York's armour. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 2. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under the roof; an attic story; especially, the uppermost floor of a house under a roof that slopes down at the sides or at one side. Up to her godly garret after seven, There starve [freeze] and pray, for that's the way to heaven. Pope , Epistle to Mi Blount, I. 21. garret2 (gar'et), v. t. A corruption of gallet . garret3 (gar'et), n. [Origin not ascertained.] The color of rotten wood. The colour of the shining part of rotten wood, by daylight, is in some pieces white, and in some pieces inclining to red, which they call the white and red garret . Bacon . garret edt (gar'et-ed), a. [ The high cliffs are by sea inacce ible round about, saving in one only place towards the east, where they proffer an uneasy landing place for boats; which, being fenced with a garetted wall, admit teth entrance through a gate. R. Carew , Survey of Cornwall. A square structure with a round turret at each end, gar retted on the top. Fuller, Worthies, Cornwall.