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Webster 1913 Edition


Garden

Gar′den

(gär′d’n; 277)
,
Noun.
[OE.
gardin
, OF.
gardin
,
jardin
, F.
jardin
, of German origin; cf. OHG.
garto
, G.
garten
; akin to AS.
geard
. See
Yard
an inclosure.]
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2.
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant
garden
of great Italy.
Shakespeare
Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
Garden balsam
,
an ornamental plant (
Impatiens Balsamina
).
Garden engine
,
a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
Garden glass
.
(a)
A bell glass for covering plants.
(b)
A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; – much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
Garden house
(a)
A summer house.
Beau. & Fl.
(b)
A privy.
[Southern U.S.]
Garden husbandry
,
the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold
or
Garden mould
,
rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden.
Mortimer.
Garden nail
,
a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
Knight.
Garden net
,
a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
Garden party
,
a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
Garden plot
,
a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot
,
a watering pot.
Garden pump
,
a garden engine; a barrow pump.
Garden shears
,
large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
Garden spider
,
(Zool.)
,
the diadem spider (
Epeira diadema
), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See
Geometric spider
, and
Spider web
.
Garden stand
,
a stand for flower pots.
Garden stuff
,
vegetables raised in a garden.
[Colloq.]
Garden syringe
,
a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
Garden truck
,
vegetables raised for the market.
[Colloq.]
Garden ware
,
garden truck.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.
Bear garden
,
Botanic garden
,
etc. See under
Bear
, etc.
Hanging garden
.
See under
Hanging
.
Kitchen garden
,
a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
Market garden
,
a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.

Gar′den

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gardened
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gardening
.]
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

Gar′den

,
Verb.
T.
To cultivate as a garden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Garden

G`ARDEN

,
Noun.
[Eng. yard, an inclosed place; L. hortus.]
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden. But these uses are sometimes blended.
2.
A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden. Lombardy is the garden of Italy.
Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage,the tillage used in cultivating gardens.

G`ARDEN

,
Verb.
I.
To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.

Definition 2024


gärden

gärden

See also: garden, Garden, and gården

Swedish

Noun

gärden

  1. indefinite plural of gärde
  2. definite singular of gärd