garden
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
garden
n 1: a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
2: the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are
cultivated in a garden
3: a yard or lawn adjoining a house
v 1: work in the garden; "My hobby is gardening"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [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.
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2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
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I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak.
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Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden
walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
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{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.
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from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Garden, MI (village, FIPS 31380)
Location: 45.77530 N, 86.55245 W
Population (1990): 268 (138 housing units)
Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 49835
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Garden, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 240
Housing Units (2000): 129
Land area (2000): 0.847775 sq. miles (2.195726 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.170234 sq. miles (0.440904 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.018009 sq. miles (2.636630 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31380
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 45.774399 N, 86.551585 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49835
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Garden, MI
Garden
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Garden, UT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Utah
Population (2000): 83
Housing Units (2000): 533
Land area (2000): 28.294440 sq. miles (73.282259 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.018358 sq. miles (0.047547 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 28.312798 sq. miles (73.329806 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27902
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.889777 N, 111.395608 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Garden, UT
Garden
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
GARDEN. A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
2. A garden is a parcel of a house and passes with it. Br. Feoffm. de
terre, 53; 2 Co. 32; Plowd. 171; Co. Litt. 5 b, 56 a, b. But see Moore, 24;
Bac. Ab. Grants, I.
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Garden -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 2292
Housing Units (2000): 1298
Land area (2000): 1704.398990 sq. miles (4414.372932 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 26.596685 sq. miles (68.885095 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1730.995675 sq. miles (4483.258027 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.527955 N, 102.344241 W
Headwords:
Garden
Garden, NE
Garden County
Garden County, NE
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "garden":
Attic, Festschrift, Japanese garden, album, alpine garden, ana,
analects, anthology, arboretum, average, beauties, bed, blooming,
bloomy, blossoming, bog garden, border, botanical garden,
bourgeois, canon, chaste, chrestomathy, classic, classical,
collectanea, collected works, collection, common, commonplace,
compilation, complete works, conventional, crop, delectus,
dry garden, dryfarm, efflorescent, everyday, farm, floral,
floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid,
florilegium, flower bed, flower garden, flowered, flowering,
flowers, flowery, garden spot, garden-variety, garland,
grape ranch, grapery, grow, herbarium, homely, homespun,
horticultural, hortulan, hortus siccus, household, in bloom,
in blossom, in flower, inflorescent, jardin, kitchen garden,
market garden, matter-of-fact, middle-class, miscellanea,
miscellany, multiflorous, no great shakes, nondescript, normal,
omnibus, ordinary, ornamental garden, paradise, photograph album,
pinetum, plain, plastic, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple,
quotation book, radiciflorous, raise, ranch, rear, regular,
rhizanthous, rock garden, roof garden, run-of-mine,
run-of-the-mill, scrapbook, sharecrop, shrubbery, simple, suburban,
sunken garden, symposium, tea garden, truck garden, unexceptional,
uniflorous, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, usual,
vegetable garden, victory garden, vinery, vineyard, workaday,
workday
from
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date
GARDEN
[3] Mary, a clever actress who succeeded on the opera
stage. Legend has it that Mary possessed a fine voice as a
child. This was expensively cultivated in Europe, was later
exposed before English and American congregations, and her
Sapho-Salome-Thais-Carmen costumes packed the houses.
Ambition: Less wealth and more throat. She also wants a
husband with a soul. Recreation: Being presented with opera
houses and suppers. Residence: Principally Atlantic liners.
[3] Ed. Note: This is not an advertisement.
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