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G NWAD G.0

G — GALLICAN NWAD G.1

G, the seventh letter and the fifth articulation of the English Alphabet, is derived to us, through the Latin and Greek, from the Assyrian languages; it being found in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan, Phenician, Ethiopic and Arabic. In the latter language, it is called giim or jim; ;but in the others, gimel, gomal or gamal, that is camel, from its shape. which resembles the neck of that animal, at least in the Chaldee and Hebrew. It is the third letter in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan and Greek; the fifth in the Arabic, and the twentieth in the Ethiopic. The early Latins used C for the Greek gamma, and hence C came to hold the third place in the order of the Alphabet; the place which gimel holds in the oriental languages. The two letters are primarily palatals, and so nearly allied in sound that they are easily convertible; and they have been reciprocally used the one for the other. But in the Assyrian languages; gimel had two sounds; one hard or close, as we pronounce the letter in gave, good; the other soft, or rather compound, as the English j or as ch in chase. In the Arabic, this letter has the sound of the English j or dzh, and this sound it has in many English words, as in genius, gem, ginger. It retains its hard sound in all cases, before a, o and u; but before e, i and y, its sound is hard or soft, as custom has dictated, and its different sounds are not reducible to rules. It is silent in some words before n, as in benign, condign, malign, campaign; but it resumes its sound inbenignityand malignity. G is mute before n in gnash; it is silent also in many words when united with h, as in bright, might, night, nigh, high. The Saxon g has in many words been softened or liquefied into y or ow; as Sax. daeg, gear, Eng. day, year; Sax. bugan, Eng. to Bow. NWAD G.1

The Celtic nations had a peculiar manner of beginning the sound of u or w with the articulation g, or rather prefixing this articulation to that vowel. Thus guard for ward, gwain for wain, guerre for war, gwell for well. Whether this g has been added by the Celtic races, or whether the Teutonic nations have lost it, is a question I have not examined with particular attention. As a numeral G was anciently used to denote 400, and with a dash over it G, 40,000. As an abbreviation, it stands for Gaius, Geelius, etc. In music, it is the mark of the treble cliff, and from its being placed at the head or marking the first sound in Guido’s scale, the whole scale took the name, Gammut, from the Greek name of the letter. NWAD G.2

GA, in Gothic, is a prefix, answering to ge in Saxon and other Teutonic languages. It sometimes has the force of the Latin cum or con, as in gawithan, to conjoin. But in most words it appears to have no use, and in modern English it is entirely lost. Y-cleped, in which ge is changed into y, is the last word in which the English retained this prefix. NWAD GA.1

GAB, n. The mouth; as in the phrase, the gift of the gab, that is, loquaciousness. But the word is so vulgar as rarely to be used. NWAD GAB.1

GABARDINE, n. A coarse frock or loose upper garment; a mean dress. NWAD GABARDINE.1

GABBLE, v.i. [Eng. to gibe.] NWAD GABBLE.1

1. To prate; to talk fast, or to talk without meaning. NWAD GABBLE.2

Such a rout, and such a rabble, NWAD GABBLE.3

Run to hear Jack Pudding gabble. NWAD GABBLE.4

2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as gabbling fowls. NWAD GABBLE.5

GABBLE, n. Loud or rapid talk with meaning. NWAD GABBLE.6

1. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered, as of fowls. NWAD GABBLE.7

GABBLER, n. A prater; a noisy talker; one that utters inarticulate sounds. NWAD GABBLER.1

GABBLING, ppr. Prating; chattering; uttering unmeaning or inarticulate sounds. NWAD GABBLING.1

GABBRO, n. In mineralogy, the name given by the Italians to the aggregate of diallage and saussurite. It is the euphotide of the French, and the verde di Corcisa duro of artists. NWAD GABBRO.1

GABEL, n. A tax, import or duty; usually an excise. NWAD GABEL.1

GABELER, n. A collector of the gabel or of taxes. NWAD GABELER.1

GABION, n. In fortification, a large basket of wickerwork, of a cylindrical form; filled with earth, and serving to shelter men from an enemy’s fire. NWAD GABION.1

GABLE, n. The triangular end of a house or other building, from the cornice or eaves to the top. In America, it is usually called the gable-end. NWAD GABLE.1

GABRIELITES, n. In ecclesiastical history, a sect of anabaptists in Pomerania, so called from one Gabriel Scherling. NWAD GABRIELITES.1

GABRONITE, n. A mineral, supposed to be a variety of fettstein. It occurs in masses, whose structure is more or less foliated, or sometimes compact. Its colors are gray, bluish or greenish gray, and sometimes red. NWAD GABRONITE.1

GAD, n. NWAD GAD.1

1. A wedge or ingot of steel. NWAD GAD.2

2. A style or graver. NWAD GAD.3

3. A punch of iron with a wooden handle, used by miners. NWAD GAD.4

GAD, v.i. NWAD GAD.5

1. To walk about; to rove or ramble idly or without any fixed purpose. NWAD GAD.6

Give the water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad. NWAD GAD.7

2. To ramble in growth; as the gadding vine. NWAD GAD.8

GADDER, n. A rambler; one that roves about idly. NWAD GADDER.1

GADDING, ppr. Rambling; roving; walking about. NWAD GADDING.1

GADFLY, n. An insect of the genus Oestrus, which stings cattle, and deposits its eggs in their skin; called also the breeze. NWAD GADFLY.1

GADOLINITE, n. A mineral, so called from Professor Gadolin, usually in amorphous masses of a blackish color, and having the appearance of vitreous lava. It contains a new earth called yttria. NWAD GADOLINITE.1

GADWALL, n. A fowl of the genus Anas, inhabiting the north of Europe. NWAD GADWALL.1

GAELIC, GALIC, a. [from Gael, Gaul, Gallia.] An epithet denoting what belongs to the Gaels, tribes of Celtic origin inhabiting the highlands of Scotland; as the Gaelic language. NWAD GAELIC.1

GAELIC, n. The language of the highlanders of Scotland. NWAD GAELIC.2

GAFF, n. NWAD GAFF.1

1. A harpoon. NWAD GAFF.2

2. A sort of boom or pole, used in small ships, to extend the upper edge of the mizen, and of those sails whose foremost edge is joined to the mast by hoops or lacings, and which are extended by a boom below, as the main-sail of a sloop. NWAD GAFF.3

GAFFER, n. [Heb. gebar, a man, vir.] A word of respect, which seems to have degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt. [Little used.] NWAD GAFFER.1

GAFFLE, n. NWAD GAFFLE.1

1. An artificial spur put on cocks when the are set to fight. NWAD GAFFLE.2

2. A steel lever to bend cross-bows. NWAD GAFFLE.3

GAG, v.t. NWAD GAG.1

1. To stop the mouth by thrusting something into the throat, so as to hinder speaking. NWAD GAG.2

2. To keck; to heave with nausea. NWAD GAG.3

GAG, n. Something thrust into the mouth and throat to hinder speaking. NWAD GAG.4

GAGE, n. [Eng. to wage.] NWAD GAGE.1

1. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act to be done by the person depositing the thing, and which is to be forfeited by non-performance. It is used of a movable thing; not of land or other immovable. NWAD GAGE.2

There I throw my gage. NWAD GAGE.3

2. A challenge to combat; that is, a glove, a cap, a gauntlet, or the like, cast on the ground by the challenger, and taken up by the accepter of the challenge. NWAD GAGE.4

3. A measure, or rule of measuring; a standard. [See Gauge.] NWAD GAGE.5

4. The number of feet which a ship sinks in the water. NWAD GAGE.6

5. Among letter-founders, a piece of hard wood variously notched, used to adjust the dimensions, slopes, etc. of the various sorts of letters. NWAD GAGE.7

6. An instrument in joinery made to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board. NWAD GAGE.8

A sliding-gage, a tool used by mathematical instrument makers for measuring and setting off distances. NWAD GAGE.9

Sea-gage, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. NWAD GAGE.10

Tide-gage, an instrument for determining the highth of the tides. NWAD GAGE.11

Wind-gage, an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface. NWAD GAGE.12

Weather-gage, the windward side of a ship. NWAD GAGE.13

GAGE, v.t. To pledge; to pawn; to give or deposit as a pledge or security for some other act; to wage or wager. NWAD GAGE.14

1. To bind by pledge, caution or security; to engage. NWAD GAGE.15

2. To measure; to take or ascertain the contents of a vessel, cask or ship; written also gauge. NWAD GAGE.16

GAGED, pp. Pledged; measured. NWAD GAGED.1

GAGER, n. One who gages or measures the contents. NWAD GAGER.1

GAGGER, n. One that gags. NWAD GAGGER.1

GAGGLE, v.i. To make a noise like a goose. NWAD GAGGLE.1

GAGGLING, n. The noise of geese. NWAD GAGGLING.1

GAGING, ppr. Pledging; measuring the contents. NWAD GAGING.1

GAHNITE, n. [from Gahn, the discoverer.] A mineral, called also automalite and octahedral corundum. It is always crystallized in regular octahedrons, or in tetrahedrons with truncated angles. NWAD GAHNITE.1

GAILY, adv. [from gay, and better written gayly.] NWAD GAILY.1

1. Splendidly; with finery or showiness. NWAD GAILY.2

2. Joyfully; merrily. NWAD GAILY.3

GAIN, v.t. [Heb. to gain, to possess.] NWAD GAIN.1

1. To obtain by industry or the employment of capital; to get as profit or advantage; to acquire. Any industrious person may gain a good living in America; but it is less difficult to gain property, than it is to use it with prudence. Money at interest may gain five, six, or seven per cent. NWAD GAIN.2

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26. NWAD GAIN.3

2. To win; to obtain by superiority or success; as, to gain a battle or a victory; to gain a prize; to gain a cause in law. NWAD GAIN.4

3. To obtain; to acquire; to procure; to receive; as, to gain favor; to gain reputation. NWAD GAIN.5

For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. NWAD GAIN.6

4. To obtain an increase of anything; as, to gain time. NWAD GAIN.7

5. To obtain or receive anything, good or bad; as, to gain harm and loss. Acts 27:21. NWAD GAIN.8

6. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate. NWAD GAIN.9

To gratify the queen, and gain the court. NWAD GAIN.10

If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matthew 18:15. NWAD GAIN.11

7. To obtain as a suitor. NWAD GAIN.12

8. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. NWAD GAIN.13

To gain into, to draw or persuade to join in. NWAD GAIN.14

He gained Lepidus into his measures. NWAD GAIN.15

To gain over, to draw to another party or interest; to win over. NWAD GAIN.16

To gain ground, to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent; to increase. NWAD GAIN.17

GAIN, v.i. To have advantage or profit; to grow rich; to advance in interest or happiness. NWAD GAIN.18

Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezekiel 22:12. NWAD GAIN.19

1. To encroach; to advance on; to come forward by degrees; with on; as, the ocean or river gains on the land. NWAD GAIN.20

2. To advance nearer; to gain ground on; with on; as, a fleet horse gains on his competitor. NWAD GAIN.21

3. To get ground; to prevail against or have the advantage. NWAD GAIN.22

The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. NWAD GAIN.23

4. To obtain influence with. NWAD GAIN.24

My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. NWAD GAIN.25

To gain the wind, in sea language, is to arrive on the windward side of another ship. NWAD GAIN.26

GAIN, n. Profit; interest; something obtained as an advantage. NWAD GAIN.27

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Philippians 3:7. NWAD GAIN.28

1. Unlawful advantage. 2 Corinthians 12:17-18. NWAD GAIN.29

2. Overplus in computation; any thing opposed to loss. NWAD GAIN.30

GAIN, n. In architecture, a beveling shoulder; a lapping of timbers, or the cut that is made for receiving a timber. NWAD GAIN.31

GAIN, a. Handy; dexterous. NWAD GAIN.32

GAINABLE, a. That may be obtained or reached. NWAD GAINABLE.1

GAINAGE, n. In old laws, the same as wainage, that is, guainage; the horses, oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage, which, when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might not be interrupted. The word signifies also the land itself, or the profit made by cultivation. NWAD GAINAGE.1

GAINED, pp. Obtained as profit or advantage; won; drawn over to a party; reached. NWAD GAINED.1

GAINER, n. One that gains or obtains profit, interest or advantage. NWAD GAINER.1

GAINFUL, a. Producing profit or advantage; profitable; advantageous; advancing interest or happiness. NWAD GAINFUL.1

1. Lucrative; productive of money; adding to the wealth or estate. NWAD GAINFUL.2

GAINFULLY, adv. With increase of wealth; profitably; advantageously. NWAD GAINFULLY.1

GAINFULNESS, n. Profit; advantage. NWAD GAINFULNESS.1

GAINGIVING, n. [from the root of again, against, and give. See Gainsay.] A misgiving; a giving against or away. [Not used.] NWAD GAINGIVING.1

GAINLESS, a. Not producing gain; unprofitable; not bringing advantage. NWAD GAINLESS.1

GAINLESSNESS, n. Unprofitableness; want of advantage. NWAD GAINLESSNESS.1

GAINLY, adv. Handily; readily; dextrously. NWAD GAINLY.1

GAINSAY, v.t. [Eng. against.] To contradict; to oppose in words; to deny or declare not to be true what another says; to controvert; to dispute; applied to persons, or to propositions, declarations or facts. NWAD GAINSAY.1

I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke 21:15. NWAD GAINSAY.2

GAINSAYER, n. One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer. Titus 1:9. NWAD GAINSAYER.1

GAINSAYING, ppr. Contradicting; denying; opposing. NWAD GAINSAYING.1

GAINST. [See Against.] NWAD GAINST.1

GAINSTAND, v.t. To withstand; to oppose; to resist. NWAD GAINSTAND.1

GAINSTRIVE, v.i. To make resistance. NWAD GAINSTRIVE.1

GAINSTRIVE, v.t. To withstand. NWAD GAINSTRIVE.2

GAIRISH, a. [Gr. proud, boasting.] NWAD GAIRISH.1

1. Gaudy; showy; fine; affectedly fine; tawdry. NWAD GAIRISH.2

Monstrous hats and gairish colors. NWAD GAIRISH.3

2. Extravagantly gay; flighty. NWAD GAIRISH.4

Fame and glory transport a man out of himself; it makes the mind loose and gairish. NWAD GAIRISH.5

GAIRISHNESS, n. Gaudiness; finery; affected or ostentatious show. NWAD GAIRISHNESS.1

1. Flighty or extravagant joy, or ostentation. NWAD GAIRISHNESS.2

GAIT, n. [This word is probably connected with go or gad.] NWAD GAIT.1

1. A going; a walk; a march; a way. NWAD GAIT.2

2. Manner of walking or stepping. Every man has his peculiar gait. NWAD GAIT.3

GAITER, n. A covering of cloth for the leg. NWAD GAITER.1

GALA, n. A gala day is a day of pomp, show or festivity, when persons appear in their best apparel. NWAD GALA.1

GALACTITE, n. [Gr. milk.] A fossil substance resembling the morochthus or French chalk in many respects, but different in color. Immersed or triturated in water, it gives it the color of milk. NWAD GALACTITE.1

GALAGE, n. A wooden shoe. NWAD GALAGE.1

GALANGA, n. A plant, species of the Maranta or Indian Arrow-Root, so called because the root is used to extract the virus communicated by poisoned arrows. This plant has thick, knotty, creeping roots, crowned with long, broad, arundinaceous leaves, with stalks half a yard high, terminated by bunches of monopetalous, ringent flowers. NWAD GALANGA.1

GALANGAL, n. Zedoary, a species of Kaempferia. It has tuberous, thick, oblong, fleshy roots, crowned with oval close-sitting leaves, by pairs, without footstalks. NWAD GALANGAL.1

GALATIANS, n. Inhabitants of Galatia, in the Lesser Asia, said to be descendants of the Gauls. [See Paul’s epistle to them.] NWAD GALATIANS.1

GALAXY, n. [Gr. milk; fair.] NWAD GALAXY.1

1. The milky way; that long, white, luminous track which seems to encompass the heavens like a girdle. This luminous appearance is found by the telescope to be occasioned by a multitude of stars, so small as not to be distinguished by the naked eye. NWAD GALAXY.2

2. An assemblage of splendid persons or things. NWAD GALAXY.3

GALBAN, GALBANUM, n. [Heb. varied in orthography, from to milk.] NWAD GALBAN.1

The concrete gummy resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, called Ferula Africana, etc., and by Linne, Bubon galbanum, which grows in Syria, the East Indies and Ethiopia. This gum comes in pale-colored, semitransparent, soft, tenacious masses, of different shades, from white to brown. It is rather resinous than gummy, and has a strong unpleasant smell, with a bitterish warm taste. It is unctuous to the touch, and softens between the fingers. When distilled with water or spirit, it yields an essential oil, and by distillation in a retort without mixture, it yields an empyreumatic oil of a fine blue color, but this is changed in the air to a purple. NWAD GALBAN.2

GALE, n. A current of air; a strong wind. The sense of this word is very indefinite. The poets use it in the sense of a moderate breeze of current of air, as a gentle gale. A stronger wind is called a fresh gale. NWAD GALE.1

In the language of seamen, the word gale, unaccompanied by an epithet, signifies a vehement wind, a storm or tempest. They say, the ship carried away her top-mast in a gale, or gale of wind; the ship rode out the gale. But the word is often qualified, as a hard or strong gale, a violent gale. A current of wind somewhat less violent is denominated a stiff gale. A less vehement wind is called a fresh gale, which is a wind not too strong for a ship to carry single reefed top-sails, when close hauled. When the wind is not so violent but that a ship will carry her top-sails a-trip or full spread, it is called a loom-gale. NWAD GALE.2

GALE, v.i. In seamen’s language, to sail, or sail fast. NWAD GALE.3

GALEA, n. [L. galea, a helmet.] A genus of sea hedge-hogs. NWAD GALEA.1

GALEAS, n. A Venetian ship, large, but low built, and moved both by oars and sails. NWAD GALEAS.1

GALEATED, a. [L. galeatus, from galea, a helmet.] NWAD GALEATED.1

1. Covered as with a helmet. NWAD GALEATED.2

2. In botany, having a flower like a helmet, as the monk’s-hood. NWAD GALEATED.3

GALEETO, n. A fish of the genus Blennius, of a greenish color, sometimes variegated with blue transverse lines, and like the eel, living many hours after being taken from the water. NWAD GALEETO.1

GALENA, n. [Gr. tranquillity, so named from its supposed effects in mitigating the violence of disease.] Originally, the name of the theriaca. NWAD GALENA.1

1. Sulphuret of lead; its common color is that shining bluish gray, usually called lead gray; sometimes it is nearly steel gray. Its streak has a metallic luster, but its fine powder is nearly black. Its structure is commonly foliated, sometimes granular or compact, and sometimes striated or fibrous. It occurs in regular crystals, or more frequently massive. NWAD GALENA.2

GALENIC, GALENICAL, a. Pertaining to or containing galena. NWAD GALENIC.1

1. [from Galen, the physician.] Relating to Galen or his principles and method of treating diseases. The galenic remedies consist of preparations of herbs and roots, by infusion, decoction, etc. The chimical remedies consist of preparations by means of calcination, digestion, fermentation, etc. NWAD GALENIC.2

GALENISM, GALENIST, n. A follower of Galen in the preparation of medicine and modes of treating diseases; opposed to the chimists. NWAD GALENISM.1

GALERITE, n. [L. galerus, a hat or cap.] A genus of fossil shells. NWAD GALERITE.1

GALILEAN, n. A native or inhabitant of Galilee, in Judea. Also, one of a sect among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans. NWAD GALILEAN.1

GALIMATIA, n. Nonsense. NWAD GALIMATIA.1

GALIOT, n. [L. galea.] NWAD GALIOT.1

1. A small galley, or sort of brigantine, built for chase. It is moved both by sails and oars, having one mast and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers. NWAD GALIOT.2

2. Galiot or galliott, a Dutch vessel, carrying a main-mast and a mizen-mast, and a large gaff main-sail. NWAD GALIOT.3

GALIPOT, n. A white resin or resinous juice which flows by incision from the pine tree, especially the maritime pine. Galipot encrusts the wounds of fir trees during winter. It consists of resin and oil. NWAD GALIPOT.1

GALL, n. [Gr. probably from its color.] NWAD GALL.1

1. In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, a yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver. It is glutinous or imperfectly fluid, like oil. NWAD GALL.2

2. Any thing extremely bitter. NWAD GALL.3

3. Rancor; malignity. NWAD GALL.4

4. Anger; bitterness of mind. NWAD GALL.5

GALLBLADDER, n. A small membranous sack, shaped like a pear, which receives the bile from the liver by the cystic duct. NWAD GALLBLADDER.1

GALLSICKNESS, n. A remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. NWAD GALLSICKNESS.1

GALLSTONE, n. A concretion formed in the gallbladder. NWAD GALLSTONE.1

GALL, n. [L. galla.] A hard round excrescence on the oak tree in certain warm climates, said to be the nest of an insect called cynips. It is formed from the tear issuing from a puncture made by the insect, and gradually increased by accessions of fresh matter, till it forms a covering to the eggs and succeeding insects. Galls are used in making ink; the best are from Aleppo. NWAD GALL.1

GALL, v.t. NWAD GALL.2

1. To fret and wear away by friction; to excoriate; to hurt or break the skin by rubbing; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse, or a collar his breast. NWAD GALL.3

Tyrant, I well deserve thy galling chain. NWAD GALL.4

2. To impair; to wear away; as, a stream galls the ground. NWAD GALL.5

3. To tease; to fret; to vex; to chagrin; as, to be galled by sarcasm. NWAD GALL.6

4. To wound; to break the surface of any thing by rubbing; as, to gall a mast or a cable. NWAD GALL.7

5. To injure; to harass; to annoy. The troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. NWAD GALL.8

In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our long bows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. NWAD GALL.9

GALL, v.i. To fret; to be teased. NWAD GALL.10

GALL, n. A wound in the skin by rubbing. NWAD GALL.11

GALLANT, a. [Eng. could; L. gallus, a cock.] NWAD GALLANT.1

1. Gay; well dressed; showy; splendid; magnificent. NWAD GALLANT.2

Neither shall gallant ships pass thereby. Isaiah 33:21. NWAD GALLANT.3

The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. NWAD GALLANT.4

[This sense is obsolete.] NWAD GALLANT.5

2. Brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as a gallant youth; a gallant officer. NWAD GALLANT.6

3. Fine; noble. NWAD GALLANT.7

4. Courtly; civil; polite and attentive to ladies; courteous. NWAD GALLANT.8

GALLANT, n. A gay, sprightly man; a courtly or fashionable man. NWAD GALLANT.9

1. A man who is polite and attentive to ladies; one who attends upon ladies at parties, or to places of amusement. NWAD GALLANT.10

2. A wooer; a lover; a suitor. NWAD GALLANT.11

3. In an ill sense, one who caresses a woman for lewd purposes. NWAD GALLANT.12

GALLANT, v.t. To attend or wait on, as a lady. NWAD GALLANT.13

1. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. NWAD GALLANT.14

GALLANTLY, adv. Gaily; splendidly. NWAD GALLANTLY.1

1. Bravely; nobly; heroically; generously; as, to fight gallantly; to defend a place gallantly. NWAD GALLANTLY.2

GALLANTNESS, n. Elegance or completeness of an acquired qualification. NWAD GALLANTNESS.1

GALLANTRY, n. NWAD GALLANTRY.1

1. Splendor of appearance; show; magnificence; ostentatious finery. [Obsolete or obsolescent.] NWAD GALLANTRY.2

2. Bravery; courageousness; heroism; intrepidity. The troops entered the fort with great gallantry. NWAD GALLANTRY.3

3. Nobleness; generosity. NWAD GALLANTRY.4

4. Civility or polite attentions to ladies. NWAD GALLANTRY.5

5. Vicious love or pretensions to love; civilities paid to females for the purpose of winning favors; hence, lewdness; debauchery. NWAD GALLANTRY.6

GALLATE, n. [from gall.] A neutral salt formed by the gallic acid combined with a base. NWAD GALLATE.1

GALLEASS. [See Galeas.] NWAD GALLEASS.1

GALLED, pp. [See Gall, the verb.] Having the skin or surface worn or torn by wearing or rubbing; fretted; teased; injured; vexed. NWAD GALLED.1

GALLEON, n. A large ship formerly used by the Spaniards, in their commerce with South America, usually furnished with four decks. NWAD GALLEON.1

GALLERY, n. NWAD GALLERY.1

1. In architecture, a covered part of a building, commonly in the wings, used as an ambulatory or place for walking. NWAD GALLERY.2

2. An ornamental walk or apartment in gardens, formed by trees. NWAD GALLERY.3

3. In churches, a floor elevated on columns and furnished with pews or seats; usually ranged on three sides of the edifice. A similar structure in a play-house. NWAD GALLERY.4

4. In fortification, a covered walk across the ditch of a town, made of beams covered with planks and loaded with earth. NWAD GALLERY.5

5. In a mine, a narrow passage or branch of the mine carried under ground to a work designed to be blown up. NWAD GALLERY.6

6. In a ship, a frame like a balcony projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship of war or of a large merchantman. That part at the stern, is called the stern-gallery; that at the quarters, the quarter-gallery. NWAD GALLERY.7

GALLETYLE, n. Gallipot. NWAD GALLETYLE.1

GALLEY, n. plu. galleys. [L. galea. The Latin word signifies a helmet, the top of a mast, and a galley; and the name of this vessel seems to have been derived from the head-piece, or kind of basket-work, at mast-head.] NWAD GALLEY.1

1. A low flat-built vessel, with one deck, and navigated with sails and oars; used in the Mediterranean. The largest sort of galleys, employed by the Venetians, are 162 feet in length, or 133 feet keel. They have three masts and thirty two banks of oars; each bank containing two oars, and each oar managed by six or seven slaves. In the fore-part they carry three small batteries of cannon. NWAD GALLEY.2

2. A place of toil and misery. NWAD GALLEY.3

3. An open boat used on the Thames by custom-house officers, press-gangs, and for pleasure. NWAD GALLEY.4

4. The cook room or kitchen of a ship of war; answering to the caboose of a merchantman. NWAD GALLEY.5

5. An oblong reverberatory furnace, with a row of retorts whose necks protrude through lateral openings. NWAD GALLEY.6