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a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the avant-garde. [ PJC ]

2. Characterized by the use of experimental techniques; modern; daring; radical. [ PJC ]

n. [ It. bel guardo. ] A sweet or loving look. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bogey. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Braggart. ] Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disregard of experience. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. disregarded; p. pr. & vb. n. disregarding. ] Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. [ 1913 Webster ]

Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disregards. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Negligently; heedlessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Garde, Yard ] Garden. [ Obs. ] “Trees of the gard.” F. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. & n. See Guard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. See Guardant. ] (Her.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] See Army organization, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cultivate as a garden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a garden. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a garden. [ R. ] W. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Horticulture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F ] (Zool.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gare l'eau beware of the water. ] An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. hagard; of German origin, and prop. meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. See Hedge, 1st Haw, and -ard. ] 1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild. ] Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Haggard, a. ] 1. (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fierce, intractable creature. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ See Haggard, a., 2. ] A hag. [ Obs. ] Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Haw, Hedge, and Yard an inclosed space. ] A stackyard. [ Prov. Eng. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a haggard manner. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annual (Polygonum orientale) with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; it is native to Southeastern Asia and Australia, and naturalized in North America.
Syn. -- prince's-feather, prince's feather, princess feather, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Lag + -ard. ] Slow; sluggish; backward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lags; a loiterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also ‖. [ Icel. miðgarðr. ] (Teut. Myth.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Cf. G. mucker a sulky person, muckish sullen, peevish, mucken to mutter, grumble. ] Sullen; displeased. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. hnöggr niggardly, stingy + -ard; cf. Sw. njugg, AS. hneáw. ] A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Niggardliness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat niggard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurious; sordid; stingy. See Avaricious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a niggard manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Niggardliness. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Niggardly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Niggardliness. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Niggardliness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Anc. Armor) A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor. [ 1913 Webster ]