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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'garnish' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions garnish noun  a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. pewter vessels in general. Quotations 1882: The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also . — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478. verb (garnishes, garnished, garnishing) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish; as, all within with flowers was garnished. (cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley. To furnish; to supply. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV) To fit with fetters. To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. Translations:  Spanish: guarnecer (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To fit with fetters) (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To warn by garnishment) (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) Etymology: From Middle English, From Middle French garniss.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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