garnish

Meanings

1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
2. To ornament with something placed around it.
3. To furnish; to supply.
4. To fit with fetters; to fetter.
5. To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
6. To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.

1. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
2. Pewter vessels in general.
3. Something added for embellishment.
4. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
5. Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
6. Fetters.
7. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
8. Cash.

1. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Etymology

From Middle English garnysshen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnijan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warnōn (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.