Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GAL'LOP, n.

The movement or pace of a quadruped, particularly of a horse, by springs, reaches or leaps. The animal lifts his fore feet nearly at the same time, and as these descend and are just ready to touch the ground, the hind feet are lifted at once. The gallop is the swiftest pace of a horse, but it is also a moderate pace, at the pleasure of a rider.

GAL'LOP, v.i. [Fr. galoper; Sp. galopear; Port. id.; It. galoppare; Arm. galoupat or galompat; G. galoppiren. If this word is from the elements GI, I know not the origin or meaning of the last constituent part of the word. I suppose it to be formed with the prefix ga on leap, G. laufen, D. loopen, geloopen. See Leap.]

1. To move or run with leaps, as a horse; to run or move with speed. But gallop lively down the western hill. – Donne.
2. To ride with a galloping pace. We galloped toward the enemy.
3. To move very fast; to run over. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. – Locke.

GAL'LOP-ER, n.

1. A horse that gallops; also, a man that gallops or makes haste.
2. In artillery, a carriage which bears a gun of a pound and a half ball. It has shafts so as to be drawn without a limbon, and it may serve for light three and six pounders.

GAL'LOP-IN, n. [Fr.]

A servant for the kitchen. [Obs.]

GAL'LOP-ING, ppr.

Riding with a gallop.

GAL'LOW, v.t. [Sax. agælwan.]

To fright or terrify. [Obs.] – Shak.

GAL'LO-WAY, n.

A horse or species of horses of a small size, first bred in Galloway in Scotland. – Hawkesworth.

GAL'LOW-GLASS, n.

An ancient Irish foot soldier. Spenser.

GAL'LOWS, n. singular. [Sax. galg, gealga; Goth. galga; G. galgen; D. galg; Sw. galge; Dan. id. Gallows is in the singular number, and should be preceded by a, a gallows. The plural is gallowses.]

1. An instrument of punishment on which criminals are executed by hanging. It consists of two posts and a cross beam on the top, to which the criminal is suspended by a rope fastened round his neck.
2. A wretch that deserves the gallows. [Not used.] Shak.
3. A pair of pantaloon suspenders.

GAL'LOWS-FREE, a.

Free from danger of the gallows. Dryden.

GAL'LOWS-TREE, n.

The tree of execution. Spencer.

GALL'SICK-NESS, n.

A remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. – Parr.

GALL'STONE, n.

A concretion formed in the gallbladder.

GALL'Y, a.

Like gall; bitter as gall. Cranmer.

GAL'LY, n. [Port. galé, a galley, and a printer's frame; Fr. galée.]

A printer's frame or oblong square board with a ledge on three sides, into which types are emptied from the composing stick. It has a groove to admit a false bottom, called a gally-slice. Encyc.

GAL'LY-WORM, n.

An insect of the centiped kind, of several species.

GA-LOCHE', n. [Fr. from Sp. galocha, a clog or wooden shoe.]

A patten, clog or wooden shoe, or a shoe to be worn over another shoe to keep the foot dry. It is written also galoshe.

GAL-SOME', a. [gaul'som; from gall.]

Angry; malignant. [Obs.] Morton.

GALT, n.

A stiff blue marl of the chalk formation. Mantell.

GAL-VAN'IC, a.

Pertaining to galvanism; containing or exhibiting it.

GAL'VAN-ISM, n. [from Galvani of Bologna, the discoverer.]

Electrical phenomena in which the electricity is developed without the aid of friction, and in which a chimical action takes place between certain bodies. Edin. Encyc. Galvanism is heat, light, electricity and magnetism, united in combination or in simultaneous action; sometimes one and sometimes another of them predominating, and thus producing more or less all the effects of each: usual means of excitement, contact of dissimilar bodies, especially of metals and fluids. Hare. Silliman.

GAL'VAN-IST, n.

One who believes in galvanism; one versed in galvanism.

GAL'VAN-IZE, v.t.

To affect with galvanism.

GAL'VAN-IZ-ED, pp.

Affected with galvanism.

GAL'VAN-IZ-ING, ppr.

Affecting with galvanism.