Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 3
Gale (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud. -- Shak.
And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned From their soft wings. -- Milton.
Gale (n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.
The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale. -- Brooke (Eastford).
Topgallant gale (Naut.), One in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.
Gale (v. i.) (Naut.) To sale, or sail fast.
Gale (n.) A song or story. [Obs.] -- Toone.
Gale (v. i.) To sing. [Obs.] "Can he cry and gale." -- Court of Love.
Gale (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry.
The sweet gale ({Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
Gale (n.) The payment of a rent or annuity. [Eng.] -- Mozley & W.
Gale (n.) A strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale.
Gale day, The day on which rent or interest is due.
Galea (n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
Galea (n.) A kind of bandage for the head.
Galea (n.) Headache extending all over the head.
Galea (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.
Galea (n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.
Galeas (n.) See Galleass.
Galeate (a.) Alt. of Galeated.
Galeated (a.) Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.
Galeated (a.) Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.
Galei (n. pl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.
Galena (n.) A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.
Galena (n.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.
Galenic (a.) Alt. of Galenical.
Galenical (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, galena. Galenic
Galenic (a.) Alt. of Galenical.
Galenical (a.) Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. -- Dunglison.
Galenic pharmacy, That branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.
Galenism (n.) The doctrines of Galen.
Galenist (n.) A follower of Galen.
Galenite (n.) Galena; lead ore.
Gale-opithecus (n.) A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.
Galericu-late (a.) Covered as with a hat or cap.
Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
Galicia (n.) 加利西亞（加利西亞語：Galiza，西班牙語：Galicia）是組成西班牙的17個自治區之一，下轄盧哥、奧倫塞、拉科魯尼亞和蓬特韋德拉4省，首府為聖地牙哥康波斯特拉。 A region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay.
Galician (a.) 加利西亞（西班牙屬）的；加利西亞人（語）的 Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland.
Galician (n.) 加利西亞人；加利西亞語 A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.
Galilean (a.) Of or relating to Galilee.
Galilean (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
Galilean (n.) (Jewish Hist.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite.
Galilean (n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. -- Byron.
Galilean (a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.
Galilean (a.) Of or relating to Galileo or his works.
Galilean (a.) Of or relating to Galilee or its inhabitants [syn: Galilean, Galilaean].
Galilean (n.) An inhabitant of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ) [syn: Galilean, Galilaean].
Galilean (n.) One of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo [syn: Galilean satellite, Galilean].
Galilean, () An inhabitant or native of Galilee. This word was used as a name of contempt as applied to our Lord's disciples (Luke 22:59; Acts 2:7). All the apostles, with the exception of Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:11), were Galileans. Peter was detected by his Galilean accent (Matt. 26:69; Mark 14:70).
This was also one of the names of reproach given to the early Christians. Julian the Apostate, as he is called, not only used the epithet himself when referring to Christ and his apostles, but he made it a law that no one should ever call the Christians by any other name.
Galilee (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals.
Galimatias (n.) [F.] 胡言亂語 Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.
Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. -- Walpole.
Galingale (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. -- Chaucer.
Meadow, set with slender galingale. -- Tennyson.
Galingale (n.) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots [syn: galingale, galangal, Cyperus longus].
Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.
Galiot (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
Galipot (n.) An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.
Gall (n.) (Physiol.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
Gall (n.) The gall bladder.
Gall (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. -- Lam. iii. 5.
Comedy diverted without gall. -- Dryden.
Gall (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang]
Gall bladder (Anat.), The membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Gall duct, A duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct.
Gall sickness, A remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. -- Dunglison.
Gall of the earth (Bot.), An herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.
Gall (n.) (Zool.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
Note: The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by insects of the genus Cynips, chiefly on an oak ({Quercus infectoria syn. Quercus Lusitanica) of Western Asia and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are used in the manufacture of that article and for making ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine.
Gall insect (Zool.), Any insect that produces galls.
Gall midge (Zool.), Any small dipterous insect that produces galls.
Gall+oak,+The+oak+({Quercus+infectoria">Gall oak, the oak ({Quercus infectoria) which yields the galls of commerce.
Gall of glass, The neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also glass gall and sandiver. -- Ure.
Gall wasp. (Zool.) See Gallfly.
Gall (v. t.) (Dyeing) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. -- Ure.
Galled (imp. & p. p.) of Gall.
Galling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gall.
Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. -- Shak.
Gall (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh. -- Shak.
Gall (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, 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 longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. -- Addison.
Gall (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer. [R.] -- Shak.
Gall (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
Gall (n.) An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle [syn: saddle sore, gall].
Gall (n.) A skin sore caused by chafing.
Gall (n.) Abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury.
Gall (n.) A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour].
Gall (n.) A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats [syn: bile, gall].
Gall (n.) The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness].
Gall (v.) Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing [syn: chafe, gall, fret].
Gall (v.) Irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit" [syn: gall, irk].
Gall, () Heb. mererah, meaning "bitterness" (Job 16:13); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word is also used of the poison of asps (20:14), and of the vitals, the seat of life (25).
Gall, () Heb. rosh. In Deut. 32:33 and Job 20:16 it denotes the poison of serpents. In Hos. 10:4 the Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock." The original probably denotes some bitter, poisonous plant, most probably the poppy, which grows up quickly, and is therefore coupled with wormwood (Deut. 29:18; Jer. 9:15; Lam. 3:19). Comp. Jer. 8:14; 23:15, "water of gall," Gesenius, "poppy juice;" others, "water of hemlock," "bitter water."
Gall, () Gr. chole (Matt. 27:34), the LXX. translation of the Hebrew _rosh_ in Ps. 69; 21, which foretells our Lord's sufferings. The drink offered to our Lord was vinegar (made of light wine rendered acid, the common drink of Roman soldiers) "mingled with gall," or, according to Mark (15:23), "mingled with myrrh;" both expressions meaning the same thing, namely, that the vinegar was made bitter by the infusion of wormwood or some other bitter substance, usually given, according to a merciful custom, as an anodyne to those who were crucified, to render them insensible to pain. Our Lord, knowing this, refuses to drink it. He would take nothing to cloud his faculties or blunt the pain of dying. He chooses to suffer every element of woe in the bitter cup of agony given him by the Father (John 18:11).
Gallant (a.) 華麗的，豔麗的；雄偉的，堂皇的；英勇的；騎士風度的，豪俠的 Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
The town is built in a very gallant place. -- Evelyn.
Our royal, good and gallant ship. -- Shak.
Gallant (a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. -- Shak.
The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. -- Waller.
Syn: Gallant, Courageous, Brave.
Usage: Courageous is generic, denoting an inward spirit which rises above fear; brave is more outward, marking a spirit which braves or defies danger; gallant rises still higher, denoting bravery on extraordinary occasions in a spirit of adventure.
A courageous man is ready for battle; a brave man courts it; a gallant man dashes into the midst of the conflict.
Gallant (v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
Gallant (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. [Obs.] -- Addison.
Gallant (a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Gallant (n.) 豪俠；時髦男士；對女子殷勤的男士；求愛者；情夫 A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. -- Shak.
Gallant (n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies.
Gallant (n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. -- Addison.
Note: In the first sense it is by some ortho["e]pists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.
Gallant (a.) Unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers".
Gallant (a.) Lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing, gallant].
Gallant (a.) Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud].
Gallant (a.) Being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly].
Gallant (n.) A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse].
Gallant (n.) A man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire, gallant].
Gallanted (imp. & p. p.) of Gallant.
Gallanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallant.
Gallantly (adv.) 勇敢地；豪俠地；（船等）富麗堂皇；（對女性）殷勤地 In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
Gallantly (adv.) In a gallant manner.
Gallantly (adv.) In a gallant manner; "he gallantly offered to take her home" [syn: gallantly, chivalrously] [ant: unchivalrously].
Gallantness (n.) The quality of being gallant.
Gallantries (n. pl. ) of Gallantry.
Gallantry (n.) [C, U] 勇敢；豪俠；（對女性）殷勤；風流 Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic]
Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. -- Fuller.
Gallantry (n.) Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.
Gallantry (n.) Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.
Gallantry (n.) Gallant persons, collectively. [R.]
Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy. -- Shak.
Syn: See Courage, and Heroism.
Gallantry (n.) The qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor" [syn: heroism, gallantry, valor, valour, valorousness, valiance, valiancy].
Gallantry (n.) Courtesy towards women [syn: chivalry, gallantry, politesse].
Gallantry (n.) Polite attentiveness to women.
Gallate (n.) (Chem.) 【化】沒食子酸鹽 A salt of gallic acid.
Gallature (n.) (Zool.) The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.
Gallbladder (n.) [解] 膽囊 A membranous muscular sac in which bile from the liver is stored.
Gallbladder (n.) A muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion [syn: gallbladder, gall bladder].
Galleass (n.) (Naut.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]
Note: "The galleasses . . . were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and rowed each by three hundred galley slaves. They consisted of an enormous towering structure at the stern, a castellated structure almost equally massive in front, with seats for the rowers amidships." -- Motley. Gallegan
Gallegan (n.) Alt. of Gallego.
Gallego (n.) [Sp. Gallego.] A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
Gallein (n.) (Chem.) A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.
Galleon (n.) (Naut.) 十五、六世紀西班牙大型帆船 A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. -- Motley.
Galleon (n.) A large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries
Galleot (n.) (Naut.) See Galiot.
Galleries (n. pl. ) of Gallery.
Gallery (n.) [C] 畫廊，美術館；（教室，會館等的）樓座；（議會等的）旁聽席；（劇場等最便宜的）頂層樓座；頂層樓座的觀眾 [the S]；迴廊，走廊，長廊；狹長的房間；照相館；室內靶場；地道；橫坑道 A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Gallery (n.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
Gallery (n.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
Gallery (n.) (Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
Gallery (n.) (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
Gallery (n.) (Mining) A working drift or level.
Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.
Gallery (n.) Spectators at a golf or tennis match.
Gallery (n.) A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) [syn: {veranda}, {verandah}, {gallery}].
Gallery (n.) A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited [syn: {gallery}, {art gallery}, {picture gallery}].
Gallery (n.) A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery".
Gallery (n.) A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns).
Gallery (n.) Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.
Gallery (n.) A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: {drift}, {heading}, {gallery}].
Gallery, () Heb. 'attik (Ezek. 41:15, 16), a terrace; a projection; ledge.
Gallery, () Heb. rahit (Cant. 1:17), translated "rafters," marg. "galleries;" probably panel-work or fretted ceiling.
Galletyle (n.) A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." -- Bacon.
Galleys (n. pl. ) of Galley.
Galley (n.) (Naut.) 單層甲板大帆船；船上的廚房 A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as:
Galley (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
Galley (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
Galley (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
Galley (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
Note: The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. Galleons, galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications of this type.
Galley (n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
Galley (n.) (Chem.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Galley (n.) (Print.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
Galley (n.) (Print.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
Galley slave, A person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." -- Macaulay.
Galley slice (Print.), A sliding false bottom to a large galley. -- Knight.
Compare: Caboose
Caboose (n.) [Written also camboose.] (Naut.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
Caboose (n.) (Railroad) A car used on freight or construction trains as travelling quarters for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. It usually is the last car of the train. [U. S.]
Galley (n.) A large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading.
Galley (n.) (Classical antiquity) A crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars.
Galley (n.) The kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner.
Galley (n.) The area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley, ship's galley, caboose, cookhouse].
Galley-bird (n.) (Zool.) The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]