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Garden syringe

Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), 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.

  2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak. Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. Garden balsam, an ornamental plant ( Impatiens Balsamina). Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens. Garden glass.

    1. A bell glass for covering plants.

    2. 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

      1. A summer house.
        --Beau. & Fl.

      2. 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, (Zo["o]l.), the diadem spider ( Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and Americ

        1. It spins a geometrical we

        2. 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, et

        3. 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.

Garden syringe

Syringe \Syr"inge\, n. [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. ?, ?, a pipe or tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. Syringa.] A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.

Garden syringe. See Garden.

Wiktionary
garden syringe

n. A syringe for sprinkle plants with water, insecticide, etc.

Usage examples of "garden syringe".

Sabat held it aloft, saw a contraption which at first sight resembled a small garden syringe.