noun. Any of several common, widespread aluminum or calcium silicate minerals occurring in two internally isomorphic series, (Mg, Mn, Fe)₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂ and Ca₃(Cr, Al, Fe)₂Si₃O₁₂, generally crystallized, often embedded in igneous and metamorphic rocks, and colored red, brown, black, green, yellow, or white and used both as gemstones and as abrasives.

noun. A dark to very dark red.

noun. Nautical:

noun. A sort of tackle fixed to the mainstay, and used to hoist in and out the cargo.

noun. A clue-garnet.

noun. A pendant rove through a hole in the spar-deck, hooked to a pendent tackle, and used in mounting or dismounting guns on the gun-deck. Also called gurnet.

noun. “(Webster); cf. garnet-apple. The ult. source is the same; granat and grenade are doublets.] A common mineral species embracing many varieties, which, while conforming to the same general formula, differ in composition and hence also in color, specific gravity, and fusibility.

noun. A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

noun. See under Clew.

noun. A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.

noun. the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color.

noun. an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.

noun. A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.

noun. A dark red.

adjective. Of a dark red colour.

noun. A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

noun. any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive

"That sinking feeling was back … and every University of South Carolina fan clad in garnet-and-black at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon could feel it."

alizarin garnet  carminaph garnet  white garnet  

mineral  transparent gem  

almandine  almandite  andradite  carbuncle  cinnamon stone  

arnot  incarnate  

amethyst  aquamarine  beryl  carbuncle  chrysolite