Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

GAL-VAN-OL'O-GIST, n.

One who describes the phenomena of galvanism.

GAL-VAN-OL'O-GY, n. [galvanism, and Gr. λογος, discourse.]

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

GAL-VA-NOM'E-TER, n. [galvanism, and Gr. μετρον, measure.]

An instrument or apparatus for measuring minute quantities of electricity, or the operations of galvanism. Ure.

GA-MASH'ES, n.

Short spatterdashes worn by plowmen. Shelton.

GAM-BA'DOES, n.

Spatterdashes. [It. gamba, the leg.]

GAM'BET, n.

A bird of the size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic sea, and in Scandinavia and Iceland. Pennant.

GAM'BIT, n.

A series of skillful moves in the game of chess.

GAM'BLE, v.i. [from game.]

To play or game for money or other stake.

GAM'BLE, v.t.

To gamble away, is to squander by gaming. Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates. Ames.

GAM'BLED, v. [pret. of Gamble.]

GAM'BLER, n.

One who games or plays for money or other stake. Gamblers often or usually become cheats and knaves.

GAM'BLING, ppr.

Gaming for money.

GAM-BOGE', n.

A concrete vegetable juice or inspissated sap, produced by the Hebradendron Cambogioides. It is brought in orbicular masses or cylindrical rolls, from Cambaja, Cambodja or Cambogia, in the East Indies, whence its name. It is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beautiful reddish yellow. It is used chiefly as a pigment. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. Nicholson.

GAM'BOL, n.

A skipping or leaping about in frolick; a skip; a hop; a leap; a sportive prank. Dryden.

GAM'BOL, v.i. [Fr. gambiller, to wag the leg or kick, from It. gamba, the leg, Fr. jambe, Sp. gamba.]

1. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolick, like boys and lambs. Milton. Dryden.
2. To leap; to start. Shak.