Associations to the word «Garnish»

Wiktionary

GARNISH, verb. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
GARNISH, verb. (cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
GARNISH, verb. To furnish; to supply.
GARNISH, verb. (slang) (archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
GARNISH, verb. (legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
GARNISH, noun. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
GARNISH, noun. Pewter vessels in general.
GARNISH, noun. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
GARNISH, noun. (cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
GARNISH, noun. (slang) (obsolete) Fetters.
GARNISH, noun. (slang) (historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
GARNISH BOLT, noun. A bolt with a chamfered or faceted head.

Dictionary definition

GARNISH, noun. Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration.
GARNISH, noun. Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment.
GARNISH, verb. Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt".
GARNISH, verb. Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King