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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gar·nish, n.
 1. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
 So are you, sweet,
 Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.   --Shak.
 Matter and figure they produce;
 For garnish this, and that for use.   --Prior.
 2. Cookery Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment, such as parsley. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
 3. Fetters. [Cant]
 4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. [Cant]
 Garnish bolt Carp., a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head.