Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GA-LEE'TO, 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.

GA-LE'NA, n. [Gr. γαληνη, tranquillity, so named from its supposed effects in mitigating the violence of disease.]

1. Originally, the name of the theriaca. Parr.
2. 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. Cleaveland.

GA-LEN'IC, or GA-LEN'IC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to or containing galena. Encyc.
2. [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, &c. The chimical remedies consist of preparations by means of calcination, digestion, fermentation, &c.

GA'LEN-ISM, n.

The doctrines of Galen.

GA'LEN-IST, n.

A follower of Galen in the preparation of medicine and modes of treating diseases; opposed to the chimists.

GA'LER-ITE, n. [L. galerus, a hat or cap.]

A genus of fossil shells.

GAL-I-LE'AN, 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.

GAL-I-MA'TIA, n. [Fr. galimatias.]

Nonsense. Addison.

GAL'IOT, n. [Fr. galiote; Sp. galeota; It. galeotta; L. galea.]

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. Dict.
2. Galiot or galliott, a Dutch vessel, carrying a main-mast and a mizzen-mast, and a large gaff main-sail. Mar. Dict.

GAL'I-POT, n. [Sp.]

A white resin or resinous juice which flows by incision from the pine tree, especially the maritime pine. Sp. Dirt. Fourcroy. Dict. Nat. Hist. Galipot incrusts the wounds of fir trees during winter. It consists of resin and oil. Coxe.

GALL, n.

A wound in the skin by rubbing.

GALL, n. [L. galla; Sax. gealla; Sp. agalla; It. 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. Parr.

GALL, n. [Sax. gealla; G. galle; D. gal; Dan. galde; Sw. galle; Gr. χολη; probably from its color, Sax. gealew, yelfow. See Yellow and Gold.]

1. In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver. It is glutinous or imperfectly fluid, like oil. Encyc. Nicholson.
2. Any thing extremely bitter. Dryden.
3. Rancor; malignity. Spenser.
4. Anger; bitterness of mind. Prior.

GALL, v.i.

To fret; to be teased. Shak.

GALL, v.t. [Fr. galer, to scratch or rub; gale, scab.]

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. Tyrant, I well deserve thy galling chain. Pope.
2. To impair; to wear away.; as, a stream galls the ground. Ray.
3. To tease; to fret; to vex; to chagrin; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
4. To wound; to break the surface of any thing by rubbing; as, to gall a mast or a cable.
5. To injure; to harass; to annoy. The troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. 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. Addison.

GALL, v.t.

In dyeing, to impregnate with a decoration of gall-nuts. Ure.

GAL'LANT, a. [Fr. galant; Sp. galante; It. id. This word is from the root of the W. gallu, to be able, to have power; Eng. could; L. gallus, a cock. See Could, Call, and Gala. The primary sense is to stretch, strain or reach forward.]

1. Gay; well dressed; showy; splendid; magnificent. Neither shall gallant ships pass thereby. Is. xxxiii. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller. [This sense is obsolete.]
2. Brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
3. Fine; noble. Shak.
4. Courtly; civil; polite and attentive to ladies; courteous. Clarendon.

GAL-LANT', n.

1. A gay, sprightly man; a courtly or fashionable man. Shak.
2. A man who is polite and attentive to ladies; one who attends upon ladies at parties, or to places of amusement.
3. A wooer; a lover; a suitor.
4. In an ill sense, one who caresses a woman for lewd purposes.

GAL-LANT', v.t.

1. To attend or wait on, as a lady.
2. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. Connoisseur.

GAL-LANT'ED, pp.

Attended or waited on as a lady.

GAL-LANT'ING, ppr.

Waited on by a gentleman.

GAL'LANT-LY, adv.

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

GAL'LANT-NESS, n.

Elegance or completeness of an acquired qualification. Howell.

GAL'LANT-RY, n. [Sp. galanteria; Fr. galanterie.]

1. Splendor of appearance; show; magnificence; ostentatious finery. [Obsolete or obsolescent.] Waller.
2. Bravery; courageousness; heroism; intrepidity. The troops entered the fort with great gallantry.
3. Nobleness; generosity. Glanville.
4. Civility or polite attention to ladies.
5. Vicious love or pretensions to love; civilities paid to females for the purpose of winning favors; hence, lewdness; debauchery.

GAL'LATE, n. [from gall.]

A salt formed by the gallic acid combined with a base. Lavoisier.