galll (gal)

[ It. fiele Sp. hiel = Pg. fel = F. fiel ) = Gr. χολή (> ult. E. cholic1, cholera, etc.) = OBulg. zluti, zlūci, gall, bile; perhaps allied to AS. geolo, geolu, E. yellow, q. v., to L. helvus, yellowish, and to Gr. χλωρός, yellowish-green: see chlorin, etc.] 1. The bitter secretion of the liver: same as bile2, 1. See also ox - gall. In the authorized version of the Old Testament gall is used to translate two Hebrew words, one signifying animal gall, and the other a vegetable poison the nature of which is involved in uncertainty. In Turkey the gall of the carp is used as a green pigment and in staining paper. Ther hi habbeth dronke bittrere then the galle . Flemish Insurrection (Child's Ballads, VI. 273). IMG:content-2032.png:[blocks in formation] gall lian, only in pp. gealled, galled, chafed (of a horse), = D. gallen, gall, chafe, = OF. galler, galer, gall, fret, itch, rub; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To fret and wear away, as the skin, by friction; excoriate; break the skin of by rubbing: as, a saddle galls the back of a horse. Besides, my horse's back is something gall'd , Which will enforce me ride a sober pace. Beau, and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, iv. 2. The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. Cowper , John Gilpin. Show us thy neck where the king's chain has galled. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 283. 2. To impair the surface of by rubbing; wear away: as, to gall a mast or a cable. And the Gabriell, riding asterne the Michael, had her cable gauld asunder in the hawse with a piece of driuing yce. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 66. If it should fall down in a continual stream like a river, it would gall the ground, wash away plants by the roots, and overthrow houses. Ray, Works of Creation. 3. To fret; vex; irritate: as, to be galled by sarcasm. Christ himselfe the fountaine of meekne e found acrimony anough to be still galling and vexing the Prelatic all Pharisees. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. No Truths can be so uneasie and provoking as those which gaul the Consciences of Men. Stilling fleet , Sermons, III. v. The sarcasms of the King soon galled the sensitive temper of the poet. Macaulay , Frederic the Great. 4. To hara ; distre : as, the troops were gall ed by the shot of the enemy. Leisly then commanded three hundred horse to advance into the riuer, whom the musqueteers from behind the works so galled as they were enforced to retire. Baker , Charles I., an. 1640. The Christians not merely galled them from the battlements, but i ued forth and cut them down in the exca Irving , Granada, p. 44. vations they were attempting to form II. in trans. 1. To fret; be or become chafed. Thou'lt gall between the tongue and the teeth, with fretting. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. 2. To act in a galling manner; make galling or irritating remarks. OF. galle, a galling, fretting, itching of the skin, F. gale, a scab, scurf, mange, itch, ML. gall a, scab; Sp. agalla, pl. agalles, windgalls, also a distemper of the glands under the cheeks or in the tonsils. If the Rom. forms are not of Teut. origin, all the forms must be referred to L. gall a, a gallnut, with which at all events they have been confused: see gall3.] 1. A sore on the skin, caused by fretting or rubbing; an excoriation. Enough, you rubbed the guiltie on the gaule , Mir. for Mags., p. 463. If they be pricked, they will kick; if they be rubbed on the gall , they will wince. Latimer , Sermon of the Plough. This is the fat all est wound; as much super i our to the former as a gangrene is to a gall or a scratch. Government of the Tongue . IMG:content-2033.jpg:[graphic] by Cynips quercus - in an is, showing the internal cobwebby structure. are also termed nutgalls or gallnuts, and are known in commerce by the names of white, green, and blue. The two latter kinds are the best. The chief products of galls are tannin or gallotannic acid, of which the best galls yield from 60 to 70 per cent. Galls from other species of oak, as well as from other kinds of trees, are met with in commerce and are used for dyeing and tanning, as tamarisk galls from Tamarix oriental is, Chinese galls from Rhus semi a lat a, and Bokhara galls from various species of Pis 2. A fault, imperfection, or blemish. Halli- cutting , a hollow made in the surface of a slab by changing the direction of the cut.-4. A spot where gra , corn, or trees have failed. Halli- well (spelled gaul ) .-5. In the southern United States, a low spot, as near the mouth of a river, where the soil under the matted surface has been washed away, or has been so exhausted that nothing will grow on it. See bay - gall.- Cypre -gall, a gall which has a firm, sandy soil, free from acidity, bearing a dwarf kind of cypre unfit for use. Bartlett. See def. 5. To claw on the gallt. See claw. gall2 (gal), r. [Early mod. E. also gaul , gaule ; gallen , chiefly in pp. galled , geal- *g tacia. These galls are of very various forms and sizes. The nuts called galls doe ever breake out all at once in a night, and namely about the beginning of June, when the sunne is out of the signe Gemini. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvi. 7. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary I swear (and else may insects prick Each leaf into a gall ) This girl, for whom your heart is sick, Is three times worth them all. The reformation of our travell'd gallants , That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 3. I saw the auncient pictures of many Roman Gallants . Coryat, Crudities, I. 185. Mer. This widow seems a gallant . Love. A goodly woman; And to her handsomene she bears her state, Reserv'd and great. Fletcher , Wit without Money, i. 1. Now 'tis no is'd I have money enough, how many gal- lants of all sorts and sexes court me! Shirley, Bird in a Cage, ii. 1. Was it not my Gallant that whistled so charmingly in the Parlour, before he went out this Morning? He's a most accomplished Cavalier. Steele, Tender Husband, ii. 1. 2. An ardent, intrepid youth; a daring spirit; a man of mettle. [Obsolete or archaic.] Amongst the rest he had chosen Gabrielle Beadle, and Iohn Ru ell, the only two gallants of this last Supply. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 197. Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins To give each naked curtle-axe a stain, That our French gallants shall to-day draw out. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 2. 3. (Also ga-lant'.) A man who is particularly attentive to women; one who habitually escorts or attends upon women; a ladies' man.-4. A wooer; a suitor; in a bad sense, a rake; a lib- She had nothing to dread from midnight a a ins or drunken gallants . Jane Austen , North anger Abbey, p. 133, 5t. Naut . , any flag carried at the mizzenmast. gallant (gal'ant; in senses 2 and 3 ga-lant'), v. 5t. Gallants collectively. [ gallant , n.] I. trans. 1. To make gallant or fine; deck out. [Rare.] Enter Bubble gallanted . J. Cook , Green's Tu Quoque. She is gallanted in her best bravery of silk and satin. N. A. Rev. , CXLIII. 4. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 2. A comely Virgin in gallant attire, which shall embrace him, and he her. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 264. As Both well was walking in the lowlands alane, He met six ladies sae gallant and fine. I thought he had been king, he was so gallant ; There's none here wears such gold. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iii. 2. Evelyn, Diary, March 18, 1644. Cam . It is a gallant child. Shak . , W. T., i. 1. Questionle , this Gustavus (whose Anagram is Augus- tus) was a great Captain, and a gallant Man. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 6. 3. Honorable; magnanimous; chivalrous; no- ble: as, a gallant antagonist. That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds, Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. I teach young gentlemen the whole art of gallanting a fan. Add is on, The Fan Exercise, 3. To play the gallant toward (a woman); at- tend or escort with deferential courtesy: as, to gallant a lady to the theater. Old men, whose trade is Still to gallant and dangle with the ladies. II. in trans. To make love; be gallant. I rather hop'd I should no more Hear from you o' th' gallanting score. For hard dry-bastings used to prove The readiest remedies of love. O yes, I have been, ma'am, to visit the Queen, ma'am, And the rest of the gallantee show. gallant i set, n. lant , gallant: see gallant .] Gallant bearing; gallantly (gal'ant-li), adv . 1. In a gallant man- ner; gaily; showily. [Archaic.] The wayes ech where are galantly paued with foure square stone, except it be where for want of stone they use to lay bricke. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. ii. 69. The golden winged Lyon.. is gallantly displayed above the gate. Coryat , Crudities, I. 190. Then who would not gladly Live in this brave town, Which flourishes gallantly With high renown? 2. Bravely; with spirit; heroically; nobly: as, to defend a place gallantly . The duke of Exeter has very gallantly maintained the Shak ., Hen. V., iii. 6. The foot behaved themselves very gallantly . She was giving him a chance to do gallantly what it seemed unworthy of both of them he should do meanly. H. James, Jr., Pa . Pilgrim, p. 478. 3. (Also ga-lant'li.) In the manner of a gal- lant or wooer. quality of being gallant; gayne ; fine appear- ance; bravery; dashing courage. [Now rare.] Than began simplicitie in apparell to be layd aside. Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 136. bladder or to the intestine; a cystic, hepatic, or choledochous duct, of which there may be one or several. Inman there are three main gall-ducts: a hepatic, from the liver, and a cystic, to the gall-bladder, these two uniting to form a third, the common biliary duct (duct us communis choledochus), which discharges bile in to the duodenum or first part of the intestine. Also called gall - pipe and bile - duct. gallea t, gallia t (gal'ē-as, -i-as), n. [Also gallias, galeas; = D. galeas, galjas = G. galea e = Dan. Sw. galeas, Gallies, Great gallia es , fly-boats, pinnaces, Amounting to the number of an hundred And thirty tight, tall saile. Heywood, If You Know not Me, ii. galled (gâld), p . a . [Pp. of gall2 , v.] 1. Fretted or excoriated; abraded: as, a galled back. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 2. Characterized by galls. See gall2, n. Gallegan (ga-lē'gan), n. [ Gallego (Sp. pron. gä-lyāgō), n. [Sp.] Same as Gallegan.