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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Garnishment \Gar"nish*ment\, noun [Cf. OF. garnissement protection, guarantee, warning.]
1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. (Law) (a) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. (b) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.
3. A fee. See {Garnish}, noun, 4.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trustee \Trus*tee"\, noun (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
{Trustee process} (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the {process of foreign attachment}, {garnishment}, or {factorizing process}. [U. S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
garnishment
noun: a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "garnishment": adjunct, adornment, angary, annexation, annexure, arrangement, attachment, certiorari, citation, collectivization, color, color patterns, commandeering, communalization, communization, confiscation, decor, decoration, distraint, distress, elaboration, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, eminent domain, execution, expropriation, flourish, flower arrangement, furniture arrangement, garnish, garniture, habeas corpus, illumination, impoundment, impressment, levy, monition, nationalization, ornament, ornamentation, right of angary, sequestration, socialization, subpoena, summons, trim, trimming, venire, venire de novo, venire facias, window dressing, writ of summons
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