1.
[syn: parsley, Petroselinum crispum]
2. aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Garnish \Gar"nish\, n.
1. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament;
also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or
decorated.
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So are you, sweet,
Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. --Shak.
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Matter and figure they produce;
For garnish this, and that for use. --Prior.
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2. (Cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an
embellishment, such as parsley. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
--Smart.
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3. Fetters. [Cant]
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4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an
unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a
newcomer. [Cant] --Fielding.
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Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted
head. --Knight.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Parsley \Pars"ley\ (p[aum]rs"l[y^]), n. [OE. persely, persil, F.
persil, L. petroselinum rock parsley, Gr. petrose`linon;
pe`tros stone + se`linon parsley. Cf. Celery.] (Bot.)
An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having
finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a
garnish.
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As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a
rabbit. --Shak.
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Fool's parsley. See under Fool.
Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given
to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley.
Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling
parsley (Cryptogramme crispa).
Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb (Alchemilla arvensis)
formerly used as a remedy for calculus.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Apiaceae \Apiaceae\ prop. n.
A natural family of plants bearing flowers in umbels;
examples are: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway;
celery; dill.
Syn: Umbelliferae, family Umbelliferae, family Apiaceae,
carrot family
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
parsley
n 1: annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves [syn:
parsley, Petroselinum crispum]
2: aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely
and used to garnish food
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Parsley
A Pascal extension for construction of parse trees, by
Barber of Summit Software. It features Iterators.
["PARSLEY: A New Compiler-Compiler", in Software Development
Tools, Techniques and Alternatives, Arlington VA, Jul 1983,
pp.232-241].
(1995-02-22)