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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Clothing in general.

2. The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

3. Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

4. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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