Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Garnish"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Garnish
overlay with stones (2 Chr. 3:6), adorn (Rev. 21:19), deck with
garlands (Matt. 23:29), furnish (12:44).
In Job 26:13 (Heb. shiphrah, meaning "brightness"), "By his
spirit the heavens are brightness" i.e., are bright, splendid,
beautiful.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Garnish \Gar"nish\, n.
1. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament;
also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or
decorated.
So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a
boy. --Shak.
Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this,
and that for use. --Prior.
2. (Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an
embellishment. See {Garnish}, v. t., 2. --Smart.
3. Fetters. [Cant]
4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an
unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a
newcomer. [Cant] --Fielding.
{Garnish bolt} (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted
head. --Knight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Garnish \Gar"nish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Garnished}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Garnishing}.] [OE. garnischen, garnissen, OF. garnir
to provide, strengthen, prepare, garnish, warn, F. garnir to
provide, furnish, garnish, -- of German origin; cf. OHG.
warn[=o]n to provide, equip; akin to G. wahren to watch, E.
aware, ware, wary, and cf. also E. warn. See {Wary}, {-ish},
and cf. {Garment}, {Garrison}.]
1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to
adorn; to embellish.
All within with flowers was garnished. --Spenser.
2. (Cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid
about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
3. To furnish; to supply.
4. To fit with fetters. [Cant] --Johnson.
5. (Law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to
garnishee. See {Garnishee}, v. t. --Cowell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
garnish
n 1: something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or
decoration
2: any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
v : decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
[syn: {trim}, {dress}]
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