GERIZIM, or Gerizim, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Samaria, at the foot of which stood Sichem; so near, that Jotham could be heard by the Sichemites from its top, (Judges, ix. 7.). Famous for the temple built on it by Sanballet, in favour of his fon-in-law Manahob, by the permission of Alexander the Great, and 200 years after destroyed by John Hyrcanus, fon of Simon, the fourth in succession of the Asmonaeans (Josephus).

CARLAND, a fort of chaplet made of flowers, feathers, and sometimes precious stones, worn on the head in manner of a crown.—The word is formed of the French guirlande, and that of the barbarous Latin garlanda, or Italian ghirlanda. Menage traces its origin from gyrus through gyrulus, to gyralare, gyrlandum, ghirlandum; and at length ghirlanda and guirlande; so that guirlande and garland are descended in the fifth or seventh degree from gyrus.—Hicks rejects this derivation, and brings the word from gardel hands, which in the northern languages signify a nosegay artfully wrought with the hand.

CARLAND also denotes ornaments of flowers, fruits, and leaves, intermixed; anciently much used at the gates of temples, where feasts and solemn rejoicings were held; or at any other place where marks of public joy or gaiety were required, as at triumphal arches, tournaments, &c.