gardenings
plural of gardening
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Source: Wiktionary
Gar"den*ing, n.
Definition: The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
Gar"den, n. Etym: [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 appropriates 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. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) 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 (a) A summer house. Beau & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.] -- Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
– Garden mold or 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, (Zoöl.), the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. 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, etc.
– 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.
Gar"den, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening.]
Definition: To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
Gar"den, v. t.
Definition: To cultivate as a garden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 January 2025
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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