Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 4
Galley-worm (n.) (Zool.) 【動】 倍足綱的多足昆蟲 A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.
Compare: Chilognatha
Chilognatha (n.) pl. (Zool.) 唇顎亞綱（學名：Chilognatha）是倍足綱之下三個亞綱之一。One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
Gallflies (n. pl. ) of Gallfly.
Gallfly (n.) (Zool.) An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.
Galliambic (a.) (Pros.) Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
Gallian (a.) Gallic; French. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Galliard (a.) Gay; brisk; active. [Obs.]
Galliard (n.) A brisk, gay man. [Obs.]
Selden is a galliard by himself. -- Cleveland.
Galliard (a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
Never a hall such a galliard did grace. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Compare: Cinque-pace
Cinque-pace (n.) [Cinque + pace.] 一種輕快的舞曲 A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] -- Nares. Shak.
Compare: Galliard
Galliard (a.)【古】活潑的 Allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.
Galliambic (a.) (Pros.) Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
Gallian (a.) Gallic; French. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Galliard (a.) Gay; brisk; active. [Obs.]
Galliard (n.) A brisk, gay man. [Obs.]
Selden is a galliard by himself. -- Cleveland.
Galliard (a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
Never a hall such a galliard did grace. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Compare: Cinque-pace
Cinque-pace (n.) [Cinque + pace.] 一種輕快的舞曲 A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] -- Nares. Shak.
Galliard (n.) 活潑輕快的雙人舞A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] -- Nares. Shak.
Galliardise (a.) Excessive gayety; merriment. [Obs.]
The mirth and galliardise of company. -- Sir. T. Browne.
Galliardness (n.) Gayety. [Obs.] -- Gayton.
Galliass (n.) Same as Galleass.
Gallic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
Gallic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
Gallic acid (Chem.), An organic acid, very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, being found in the free state in galls, tea, etc., and produced artificially.
It is a white, crystalline substance, C6H2(HO)3.CO2H, with an astringent taste, and is a strong reducing agent, as employed in photography. It is usually prepared from tannin, and both give a dark color with iron salts, forming tannate and gallate of iron, which are the essential ingredients of common black ink.
Gallic (a.) Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
Gallic (a.) Of or pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls; "Ancient Gallic dialects"; "Gallic migrations"; "the Gallic Wars."
Gallic (a.) Of or pertaining to France or the people of France; "French cooking"; "a Gallic shrug" [syn: French, Gallic].
Gallican (a.) Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.
Gallican (n.) An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. -- Shipley.
Gallican (a.) Relating to or characteristic of Gallicanism.
Gallicanism (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. -- Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Gallicanism (n.) A religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church.
Gallicism (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.
Gallicism (n.) A word or phrase borrowed from French.
Gallicized (imp. & p. p.) of Gallicize.
Gallicizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallicize.
Gallicize (v. t.) To conform to the French mode or idiom.
Gallied (p. p. & a.) (Naut.) Worried; flurried; frightened. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Galliform (a.) 雞形目 Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure.
Galligaskins (n. pl.) Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.
Gallimatia (n.) Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias.
Gallimaufries (n. pl. ) of Gallimaufry.
Gallimaufry (n.) A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.
Gallimaufry (n.) Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.
Gallin (n.) A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.
Gallinaceae (n. pl.) Same as Gallinae.
Gallinacean (n.) One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.
Gallinaceous (a.) Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.
Gallinaceous (a.) 鶉雞類的, 雞的 Of or relating to an order (Galliformes) of heavy-bodied largely terrestrial birds including the pheasants, turkeys, grouse, and the common domestic chicken.
Gallinae (n.) An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
Gallinae (n. pl. Gallinae) A group of birds usually nearly equivalent to Galliformes.
Gallinae (n. pl. Gallinae) (or gallinae) wild birds (as wild turkey, grouse, pheasant, partridge, and quail) of the order Galliformes that are fit or lawful for hunting.
Galling (a.) Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.
Gallinipper (n.) A large mosquito.
Gallinule (n.) 【鳥】鷭 One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule ({Gallinula galeata).
Note: The purple gallinule of Southern Europe and Asia was formerly believed to be able to detect and report adultery, and for that reason, chiefly, it was commonly domesticated by the ancients.
Gallinule (n.) Any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens [syn: gallinule, marsh hen, water hen, swamphen].
Galliot (n.) See Galiot.
Gallipoli oil () An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.
Gallipot (n.) A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.
Gallium (n.) (Chem.)【化】鎵（金屬元素，符號Ga，原子序號31） A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores.
It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and
remarkable for its low melting point (86[deg] F., 30[deg] C.). Symbol, Ga; at.
wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It
was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by the
Russian chemist Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law.
This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875)
by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum (two
violet lines), in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees.
Compare: Ekaluminium
Ekaluminium (n.) (Chem.) The name given by Mendeleev to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor. Also see periodic table.
Gallium (n.) A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores [syn: gallium, Ga, atomic number 31].
Gallium
Symbol: Ga
Atomic number: 31
Atomic weight: 69.72
Soft silvery metallic element, belongs to group 13 of the periodic table.
The two stable isotopes are Ga-69 and Ga-71. Eight radioactive isotopes are known, all having short half-lives. Gallium Arsenide is used as a semiconductor. Corrodes most other metals by diffusing into their lattice.
First identified by Francois Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875.
Gallivant (v. i.) To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
Gallivat (n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.
Galliwasp (n.) A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.
Gallnut (n.) A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.
Gallomania (n.) An excessive admiration of what is French.
Gallon (n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Galloon (n.) A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.
Galloon (n.) A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace.
Gallooned (a.) Furnished or adorned with galloon.
Galloped (imp. & p. p.) of Gallop.
Galloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallop.
Gallop (v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
Gallop (v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.
Gallop (v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
Gallop (v. t.) To cause to gallop.
Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
Gallopade (n.) I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.
Gallopade (n.) A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.
Gallopaded (imp. & p. p.) of Gallopade.
Gallopading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallopade.
Gallopade (v. i.) To gallop, as on horseback.
Gallopade (v. i.) To perform the dance called gallopade.
Galloper (n.) One who, or that which, gallops.
Galloper (n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.
Gallopin (v. i.) An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.
Galloping (a.) Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
Gallotannic (a.) Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.
Gallow (v. t.) To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.
Galloway (n.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.
Gallowglass (n.) A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward.
Gallowses (n. pl. ) of Gallows.
Gallows (n. pl. ) of Gallows.
Gallows (n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.
Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
Gallows (n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
Gallows (n. sing.) A pair of suspenders or braces.
Gallstone (n.) A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
Gally (v. t.) To frighten; to worry.
Gally (a.) Like gall; bitter as gall.
Gally (n.) See Galley, n., 4.
Gallygaskins (n. pl.) See Galligaskins.
Galoche () Alt. of Galoshe.
Galoshe () A clog or patten.
Galoshe () Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.
Galoshe () A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
Galoot (n.) A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.
Galop (n.) A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.
Galore (n. & a.) （用在名詞後）大量的，豐富的 Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
Galore (a.) In great numbers; "daffodils galore".
Galore (a.) Existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey galore" [syn: abounding, galore(ip)].
Galoshe (n.) Same as Galoche.
Galpe (v. i.) To gape,; to yawn.
Galsome (a.) Angry; malignant.
Galt (n.) Same as Gault.
Galvanic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
Galvanism (n.) Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
Galvanism (n.) The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
Galvanist (n.) One versed in galvanism.
Galvanization (n.) The act of process of galvanizing.
Galvanized (imp. & p. p.) of Galvanize.
Galvanizing (p pr. & vb. n.) of Galvanize.
Galvanize (v. t.) 通電，鍍鋅，刺激 To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.