gardant, guardant

[Fr.] Her.: Applied to any animal (except the hart, buck, stag, or hind), represented full-faced or looking at the observer, whether the animal be rampant, pas sant, or otherwise. A beast of chase represented full-face is said to be at gaze. *gar'de-brāçe, *gar'debras (s silent), *gard-brace, 8. [Fr. gardebras , from garder to guard, and bras the arm.] Old Arm .: A piece of armor fastened to the elbow-plates, and covering the elbow and Gardant. upper part of the arm. "Salad, speare, gardbrace ne page." Chaucer: Dreme, 1,554. A. As substantive: 1. An inclosed piece of ground, appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. A kitchen garden is one appropriated to the cultivation of herbs and roots for food or do mestic purposes; a flower-garden is one appropri ated, as its name expre es, to the cultivation of flowers and ornamental shrubs. "A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters of landlord, farmer, and laborer."- Smith : Wealth of Nations , bk. i., ch. vi. 2. A place particularly fruitful, well-cultivated, or delightful; a very pleasant spot. "The pleasant garden of great Italy." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, i. 1. B. As adj .: Pertaining to, produced or used in a garden; as garden tools. The first garden, Eden, planted by God ( Gen. ii.) The Scriptures abound with allusions to gardens, particularly the Song of Solomon and the prophets; and Christ's agony took place in a garden. Xenophon describes the gardens at Sardis; and Epicurus and Plato taught in gardens. Theophrastus' History of Plants was written about 322 B. C. Horace, Virgil, and Ovid derive many images from the garden (50 B. C. to A. D. 50); and Fliny's Tusculan villa is circumstantially described (about A. D. 100). IMG:content-0328.png:[blocks in formation]