Garlic mustard, a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic.Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

Garlicky
(Gar"lick*y) a. Like or containing garlic.

Garment
(Gar"ment) n. [OE. garnement, OF. garnement, garniment, fr. garnir to garnish. See Garnish.] Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment.
Matt. ix. 16.

Garmented
(Gar"ment*ed), p. a. Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic]

A lovely lady garmented in light
From her own beauty.
Shelley.

Garmenture
(Gar"men*ture) n. Clothing; dress.

Garner
(Gar"ner) n. [OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F. grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st Grain, and cf. Granary.] A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

Garner
(Gar"ner), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Garnering.] To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure. Shak.

Garnet
(Gar"net) n. [OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F. grenat, LL. granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See Grain, and cf. Grenade, Pomegranate.] (Min.) A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.

There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime or aluminia magnesia or aluminia iron or aluminia manganese or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was, in part, the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate.

5. (Naut.) (a) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in. (b) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Garland
(Gar"land) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garlanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Garlanding.] To deck with a garland. B. Jonson.

Garlandless
(Gar"land*less), a. Destitute of a garland. Shelley.

Garlic
(Gar"lic) n. [OE. garlek, AS. garleác; gar spear, lance + leác leek. See Gar, n., and Leek.]

1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.] Taylor


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