garnishment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gar=nish=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

garnishment, n. [Cf. OF. garnissement protection, guarantee, warning.].

•  Ornament; embellishment; decoration.  Sir H. Wotton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

garnishment

adjunct, adornment, angary, annexation, annexure, arrangement, attachment, certiorari, citation, collectivization, color, color patterns, commandeering, communalization, communization, confiscation, decor, decoration, distraint, distress, elaboration, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, eminent domain, execution, expropriation, flourish, flower arrangement, furniture arrangement, garnish, garniture, habeas corpus, illumination, impoundment, impressment, levy, monition, nationalization, ornament, ornamentation, right of angary, sequestration, socialization, subpoena, summons, trim, trimming, venire, venire de novo, venire facias, window dressing, writ of summons