Garb
(Garb) n. [OF. garbe looks, countenance, grace, ornament, fr. OHG. garawi, garwi, ornament,
dress. akin to E. gear. See Gear, n.]
1. (a) Clothing in general. (b) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when
indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge. (c) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a
gentleman in the 16th century.
2. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.
You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an
English cudgel.
Shak. Garb
(Garb) n. [F. gerbe, OF. also garbe, OHG. garba, G. garbe; cf. Skr. grbh to seize, E. grab.]
(Her.) A sheaf of grain
Garb
(Garb), v. t. To clothe; array; deck.
These black dog-Dons
Garb themselves bravely.
Tennyson. Garbage
(Gar"bage) n. [OE. also garbash, perh. orig., that which is purged or cleansed away; cf. OF.
garber to make fine, neat, OHG. garawan to make ready, prepare, akin to E. garb dress; or perh. for
garbleage, fr. garble; or cf. OF. garbage tax on sheaves, E. garb sheaf.] Offal, as the bowels of an
animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or
loathsome. Grainger.
Garbage
(Gar"bage), v. t. To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.
Garbed
(Garbed) a. Dressed; habited; clad.
Garbel
(Gar"bel) n. (Naut.) Same as Garboard.
Garbel
(Gar"bel), n. [Cf. Garble, v. t.] Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been
taken. [Obs.]
Garble
(Gar"ble) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Garbling.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort,
OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar
to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf.
E. Discern); or perh. rather from Ar. gharbal, gharbil, sieve.]
1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from
dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.]
2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to
garble an account.
Garble
(Gar"ble), n.
1. Refuse; rubbish. [Obs.] Wolcott.
2. pl. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; — also called garblings.
