a sort 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 gyrolus, to gyrolare, gyrolandum, ghirlandum; and at length guirlanda and guirlande; so that guirlande and garland are descended in the sixth or seventh degree from gyrus.—Hick rejects this derivation, and brings the word from gardel hands, which in the northern languages signify a nosegay artfully wrought with the hand.