Garb

[0. Fr. garbe, a garb; Norm. garbes, clothing; It. garbo, comeline , behavior, carriage; A.S. gearwa, clothing.] Dre ; clothing; habit as, the garb of a monk. -Fashion or mode of dre ; - hence, external appearance, looks, ., expre ive of disposition, manner, character, .; as, "he could not speak English in the native garb." - Shaks. (Her.) A sheaf of any sort of grain; - said to represent summer. Garbage, ( gar'bāj ,) n. [From the root of garble .] That which is separated, as by sifting; the bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal. (Applied sometimes to vegetable refuse, and to immoral and gro literature.) "Who, without aversion, ever look'd On holy garbage, though by Homer cook'd?"-Lord Roscommon. Garbaged, a . With the bowels or entrails removed. Garbed, ( gårbd .) a. Dre ed; attired; habited; clad. Gar'bel, n. ( Naut .) Same as GARBOARD, q. v. -That which is sifted, and from which the coarse and dro y portions have been removed. Garbich, ( gar'be, ) a maritime prov. of Lower Egypt, in the delta of the Nile. nearly; Sp. garbillúr , to sift, garbillo , a coarse sieve; Ar. gharbil , a sieve.] To pick out or separate such parts from a whole as may serve a purpose; to destroy or mutilate by picking out; as, a garbled version of a story. Garbler, n. One who garbles; one who picks out or selects to serve a purpose; as, a garbler of quotations. Garbles, n. pl. The dusty refuse matter of drugs, spices, . a delightful place. "I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy." - Shaks. Kitchen garden, a garden devoted to the cultivation and production of vegetables, herbs, ., for kitchen-use. -v.n. To lay out a garden; to cultivate a garden; to labor at gardening; to practise floriculture, horticulture, . -v. a. To cultivate, as a garden. Gar'board-strake, n . ( Naut .) The strake of plank in the bottom that is wrought into the rabbet of the keel of a ship. Garcia River, ( gar - see'a,) in California, enters the Pacific Ocean from Mendocino co.