| garish | 1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." . "In . . . Garish colours." . "The garish day." . "Garish like the laughters of drunkenness." (Jer. Taylor) 2. Gay to extravagance; flighty. "It makes the mind loose and garish." (South) Gar"ishly, Garishness. Origin: Cf. OE. Gauren to stare; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gairish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| garland | 1. The crown of a king. 2. A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. 3. The top; the thing most prized. 4. A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. "They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands." (Percy) 5. A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in. A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling. Origin: OE. Garland, gerlond, OF. Garlande, F. Guirlande; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. Wiara, wiera, crown, pure gold, MHG. Wieren to adorn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Garland's triangle | A triangular area of relative resonance in the lower back near the spine, found in the same side as a pleural effusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Garland, Hugh | <person> British neurologist. See: Marinesco-Garland syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Garland, M | <person> U.S. Physician, 1848-1926. See: Garland's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| garlic | 1. <botany> A plant of the genus Allium (A. Sativum is the cultivated variety), 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. 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 (Crataeva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste. Origin: OE. Garlek, AS. Garleac; gar spear, lance + leac leek. See Gar, and Leek. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garlic oil | A volatile oil from the bulb or entire plant of Allium sativum (family Liliaceae); contains diallyl disulfide and allyl propyl disulfide; has been used as an anthelmintic and rubefacient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| garnet | <chemical> A mineral having many varieties differing in colour and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest colour 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 (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, colour 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. <botany> Garnet berry, an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid. Origin: 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 colour and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See Grain, and cf. Grenade, Pomegranate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garnetiferous | <chemical> Containing garnets. Origin: 1st garnet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garnierite | <chemical> An amorphous mineral of apple-green colour; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel. Origin: Named after the French geologist Garnier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garookuh | A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garpike | <zoology> See Gar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garran | <zoology> See Galloway. [Scot. Garron or gerron. Origin: Gael. Garran, gearran, gelding, work horse, hack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Garre's disease | Fusiform thickening or increased density of bones, of unknown cause; it has been considered a form of chronic nonsuppurative osteomyelitis. Synonym: condensing osteitis, Garre's disease. Osteitis tuberculosa multiplex cystica, an osteitis of tuberculous origin, marked by numerous small cavities in the osseous substance. Synonym: Jungling's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Garre's osteomyelitis | Chronic osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis. A focal gross thickening of the periosteum with peripheral reactive bone formation resulting from mild infection. (05 Mar 2000) |