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Entry 4 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Garden

/(gär"d'n; 277)/ · Gar·den · IPA /ˈɡɑɹd(ə)n/
01 n. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
  1. 1.
    A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
  2. 2.
    A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
    “I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy.” Shak.
Phrases & compounds
Garden balsam — an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
Garden engine — a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
Garden glass — A bell glass for covering plants.
Garden house — A summer house.
Garden husbandry — the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold — rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden.
Garden nail — a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
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 — 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.
Garden syringe — a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
Garden truck — vegetables raised for the market.
Garden ware — garden truck.
Bear garden — 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.
02 v. i. To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
imp. & p. p. Gardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening
  1. 1.
    To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
03 v. t. To cultivate as a garden.
  1. 1.
    To cultivate as a garden.