Zinc spinel; automolite.

Goddess of the earth; same as Gaea.

Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.

Same as Gayety.

A jailer.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.

A lively French and Italian dance.

Merrily; showily. See gaily.

To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

Capable of being obtained or reached.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.

One who gains.

Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.

A misgiving.

Not producing gain; unprofitable.

Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.

Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies.

Gainful.

To withstand; to resist.

To strive or struggle against; to withstand.

See Garefowl.

Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.

To dress with gaiters.

Pomp, show, or festivity.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent. A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

Same as Galactometer.

An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. A galactopoietic substance.

A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

See Galoche.

A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (Alpinia Galanga and Alpinia officinarum) and of the K/mpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.

A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column or a vase.

A natural family of tropical American birds comprising the jacamars.

The payment of a rent or annuity.

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

See Galleass.

Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.

The doctrines of Galen.

A follower of Galen.

Galena; lead ore.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

A group of people with some common characteristic, especially a coterie of undesirable people.

Covered as with a hat or cap.

A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals.

Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.

A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.

A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers. A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.

A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

A common perennial herb (Nabalus serpentarius) widely distributed in southern and eastern U. S., having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in the genus Prenanthes.

To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.

In a gallant manner.

The quality of being gallant.

Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.

A salt of gallic acid.

The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.

A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.

A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.

A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.

See Galiot.

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

A little tile of glazed earthenware.

A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century. A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars. A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure. One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

The European green woodpecker, called also the yaffle; also, the spotted woodpecker.

A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or /thousand legs./ See Chilognatha.

An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.

Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

Gallic; French.

A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.

Excessive gayety; merriment.

Gayety.

Same as Galleass.

Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.

An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.

The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church.

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

To conform to the French mode or idiom.

Worried; flurried; frightened.

Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure.

Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.

Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias.

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.

A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.

Same as Gallinae.

One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

A genus of birds consisting of certain of the snipes.

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.

A large mosquito.

One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).

See Galiot.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarkable for its low melting point (86/ F., 30/ C.). Symbol, Ga; at. wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by the Russian chemist Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875) by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines), in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees.

To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.

A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.

A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.

An excessive admiration of what is French.

A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.