garden dormouse (gardndormous)

The lerot, Eliomys nitela. = = also a ibilated jardin, F. jardin = Pr. gardi, jardi (= Sp. jardin = Pg. jardim It. giardino, ML. gardinum, gardinus, from OF.), OHG. gar to (gen. and dat. gart in ), MHG. garte (gen. and dat. garten ), G. garten OS. gar do OFries. garda, a garden, Goth. garda, a fold; the same, but with different suffix, as Goth. gards = OHG. gart = AS. geard, E. yard2, an inclosure: see yard2 and garth1.] I. n. 1. A plot of ground devoted to the cultivation of culinary vegetables, fruits, or flowering and ornamental plants. A garden for culinary herbs and roots for domestic use is called a kitchen - gar den; one for flowers and shrubs, a flower - garden; and one for fruits, a fruit - garden. But these uses are sometimes blended. I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 4. Unto this new nunnery there be long eth a faire garden full of feire spacious walkes, beset with sundry pleasant Coryat , Crudities, I. 19. trees. Sometimes our road led us through groves of olives, or by gardens of oranges. Add is on , Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 415. A wild tangled garden , covering the side of the hill, a garden without flowers, with little steep, rough paths that wind under a plantation of small, scrubby stone pines. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 188. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. Than the i yede [went] into a chamber that was besyde the halle, towarde the gardyn of the river of temse. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 138. All the plain of Jordan,... well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. Gen. xiii. 10. I am arriv'd for fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. IMG:content-2104.png:[blocks in formation] Botanic garden. See botanic. - Garden of Eden. See rising one above another. The hanging gardens of Babylon, constructed by Nebuchadnezzar (604-561 в. с.), but traditionally ascribed to Semi ram is, were anciently reckoned among the wonders of the world. They were five in number, each consisting of an artificial hill or mound 400 feet square, the top of which overlooked the walls of the city, with the sides divided into terraces of earth resting on stone platforms, covered with groves, avenues, and parterres of flowers, and provided with galleries and banqueting-rooms. They were irrigated from a reservoir at the summit filled with water raised from the Euphrates, - Philosophers of the garden, followers of Epicurus. See garden - pитр . IMG:content-2105.png:[graphic]