Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. {foreign}; 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.

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

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.

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.

GALL'BLAD-DER, n.

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

GAL'LE-ASS,

See GALEAS.

GALL'ED, pp. [See Gall, the verb.]

Having the skin or surface worn or torn by wearing or rubbing; fretted; teased; injured; vexed.

GAL'LE-ON, n. [Sp. galeon; Port galeam; It. galeone. See Galley.]

A large ship formerly used by the Spaniards, in their commerce with South America, usually furnished with four decks. Mar. Dict.

GAL'LER-Y, n. [Fr. galerie; Sp. and Port galeria; It. galleria; Dan. gallerie; G. id.; D. galdery; Sw. galler-verck, and gall-rud. Lunier supposes this word to be from the root of G. wallen, to walk. But is it not a projection? See Gallant.]

1. In architecture, a covered part of a building, commonly in the wings, used as an ambulatory or a place for walking. Encyc.
2. An ornamental walk or apartment in gardens, formed by trees. Encyc.
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.
4. In fortification, a covered walk across the ditch of a town, made of beams covered with planks and loaded with earth. Encyc.
5. In a mine, a narrow passage or branch of the mine carried under ground to a work designed to be blown up. Encyc.
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.

GAL'LE-TYLE, n.

Gallipot. Bacon.

GAL'LEY, n. [plur. Galleys. Sp. galera; It. galera or galea; Fr. galère; Port. galé; 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.]

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. Encyc. Mar. Dict.
2. A place of toil and misery. South.
3. An open boat used on the Thames by custom-house officers, press-gangs, and for pleasure. Mar. Dict.
4. The cook-room or kitchen of a ship of war; answering to the caboose of a merchantman. Mar. Dict.
5. An oblong reverberatory furnace, with a row of retorts whose necks protrude through lateral openings. Nicholson.

GAL'LEY-FOIST, n.

A barge of state. Hakewell.