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.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

Furnished or adorned with galloon.

A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

To gallop, as on horseback.

One who, or that which, gallops.

An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.

Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.

To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward /

A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.

same as gallows.

A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

See Galley, n., 4.

See Galligaskins.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.

A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

Plenty; abundance; in abundance.

Same as Galoche, Galoshe.

Same as Galoche.

To gape,; to yawn.

Angry; malignant.

Same as Gault.

Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.

Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity. The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

One versed in galvanism.

The act of process of galvanizing.

To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

One who, or that which, galvanize.

Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.

Same as Glyphography.

A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

Of or pertaining to galvanography.

The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.

One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.

Of, pertaining to, or measured by, a galvanometer.

The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.

Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like.

The art or process of electrotypy.

Same as Electro-puncture.

An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.

The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.

Same as Electrotonus.

The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.

Gallows.

To have a gam with; to pay a visit to, esp. among whalers at sea.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

A viola da gamba.

Same as Gamashes.

To gaff, as mackerel.

Same as Gambison.

Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing. Catechu.

A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty.

One who gambles.

the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); as, his gambling cost him a fortune.

A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.

To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.