Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

GAL'LEY-SLAVE, n.

A person condemned for a crime to work at the oar on board of a galley.

GALL'FLY, n.

An insect that punctures plants and occasions galls; the cynips. Encyc.

GAL'LIARD, a. [Fr. gaillard, from gai, gay.]

Gay; brisk; active. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GAL'LIARD, n.

A brisk, gay man; also, a lively dance. [Obs.] Bacon.

GAL'LIARD-ISE, n.

Merriment; excessive gayety. [Obs.] Brown.

GAL'LIARD-NESS, n.

Gayety. [Obs.] Gayton.

GAL'LIC, a. [from Gallia, Gaul, now France.]

Pertaining to Gaul or France.

GAL'LIC, a. [from gall.]

Belonging to galls or oak apples; derived from galls; as. the gallic acid.

GAL'LIC-AN, a. [L. Gallicus, from Gallia, Gaul.]

Pertaining to Gaul or France; as, the Gallican church or clergy.

GAL'LI-CISM, n. [Fr. gallicisme, from Gallia, Gaul.]

A mode of speech peculiar to the French nation; an idiomatic manner of using words in the French language.

GAL-LI-GAS'KINS, n. [Qu. Caligæ Vasconum, Gascon-hose.]

Large open hose; used only in ludicrous language. Philips.

GAL'LI-MAU-FRY, n. [Fr. gallimafrée.]

1. A hash; a medley; a hodge-podge. [Little used.] Spenser.
2. Any inconsistent or ridiculous medley. Dryden.
3. A woman. [Not in use.] Shak. [“Galimaufrey, a hodge-podge made up of the remnants and scraps of the larder.” Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. “Clear and easy words in unintelligible things are mere words without sense; and things, which are unintelligible, though expressed with plain and easy words, are called a galemaufrey.” An Impartial Account of the Word Mystery, as it is taken in the Holy Scripture. Lond. 1691, 4to, p. 19. – E.H.B.]

GAL-LI-NA'CEOUS, a. [L. gallinaceus, from gallina, a hen, gallus, a cock, whose name is from crowing, W. galw, Eng. to call.]

Designating that order of fowls called Gallinæ, including the domestic fowls or those of the pheasant kind. Gallinaceous Lapis, a glossy substance produced by volcanic fires; the lapis obsidianus of the ancients. A kind of it brought from Peru is of a beautiful black, or crow-color, like the gallinaço. Encyc.

GAL-LI'NAE, n. [GAL-LI'NÆ. L. See the next word.]

GALL'ING, n.

Act of galling or fretting the skin.

GALL'ING, ppr. [See Gall, the verb.]

1. Fretting the skin; excoriating.
2. adj. Adapted to fret or chagrin; vexing.

GAL'LI-NIP-PER, n.

A large musketoe.