gallooned (galond)

[ Those enormous habiliments were slashed and galooned. Carlyle , Sartor Resartus, i. 7. galloon-gallantt, n. A gallant in galloon: a contemptuous name. Thou galloon - gallant , and Mammon you That build on golden mountains, thou money-maggot! Fletcher , Sea Voyage, i. 3. gallop (gal'up), v. [Formerly also gall up , galop ; galopen (= D. galopperen = MHG. ga- lopieren , G. galoppiren = Dan. galoppere = Sw. galop per a ), galoper , F. galoper (= Pr. ga- laupar = Sp. Pg . galopar = It. galoppare , after F.), a var., with the usual change of initial w to g ( gu ), of OF. waloper , > ME. walopen , E. wallop , gallop, lit. boil, the sound made by a horse gal- loping being appar. likened to the boiling of a pot: see wallop , of which gallop is a doublet. The usual deriv. from "Goth. gahlaupan , to leap," is absurd; a Goth. * gahlaupan does not exist, and the rare and poet. AS. form gehleápan is transitive.] I. in trans. 1. To move or run by leaps, as a horse; run with steady and more or le rapid springs. See the noun. Knyghtes wollith on huntyng ride; The deor galopith by wodis side. King A lisa under , 1. 460 (Weber's Metr. Rom.). 2. To ride a horse that is running; ride at a running pace. She and her gentlewomen to wayte vpon her galoped through the towne, where the people might here the treading of their hor e, but they saw her not. Grafton, Edward the Confe or, an. 1043. He gallop'd up To join them, glancing like a dragon-fly. Tennyson, Geraint. 3. To move very fast; scamper. Master Blifil now, with his blood running from his nose, and the tears galloping after from his eyes, appeared before his uncle and the tremendous Thwackum. IMG:content-2048.jpg:[blocks in formation] Such superficial ideas over it. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 6. he may collect in gallop ping Locke, Conduct of Understanding, § 24. II. trans. To cause to gallop: as, he galloped his horse all the way. Never gallop Pegasus to death. Pope , Imit. of Horace, I. i. 14. gallop (gal'up), n. [= D. galop = G. galopp = Dan. galop Sw. galopp , galop = Sp. Pg. galope = It. galoppo ; from the verb.] 1. A leaping or springing gait or movement of horses (or other quadrupeds), in which the two fore feet are lifted from the ground in succe ion, and then the two hind feet in the same succe ion. The term is commonly used to denote the movement intermediate in speed and action between the canter and the run, in which during the stride two, three, or all the feet are off the ground at the same instant. (See horse.) The details of the succe ion of motions and the system of the steps vary with the different species of quadrupeds. That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. Mules bred in cold countries are commonly rough gallopers . Mortimer, Husbandry. That most intrepid and enduring of all gallopers , Sir Francis Head. Hints on Horsemanship. 2. In artillery, a carriage on which small guns are conveyed, fitted with shafts so as to be drawn without limbers. [Eng.] -3. A galloper-gun. They likewise sent another detachment, on which Sir John [Cope] advanced two Gallopers, which presently dislodged them. Trial of Sir John Cope, p. 139. 4. In dyeing, a rolling-frame. Galloperdix (gal-ō-pèr'diks), n. [NL. (E. Blyth, 1844), Galloperdix lunulatus. of the subfamily Perdicinæ, of India and Ceylon, related to the jungle-fowl, but having no comb or wattles. The sexes are di imilar in plumage, but both have the shanks spurred. There are three species of these hill-partridges, G. spadiceus and G. lunulatus of India, and the Ceylonese G. zeylonensis. n. A small gun ing. galloper-gun (gal'up-er-gun), conveyed on a galloper. See galloper, 2. [Eng.] gallop in gallop in (gal'o-pin), n. [OF. galopin, also walopin, later gallop in, gallop in, F. galopin (= Sp. galo pin = galopin or int galoppin Malopi pin = Pg. galopim n = It. galoppino;; ML. mod. galapin, E.); cf. It. galuppo, a lackey, nus ), a scullion (ef. Icel. galpin, mod. a merry fellow, You, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin , follow us to prepare our court. Scott , Abbot, xxi. [Verbal n. of gal galloping (gal'up-ing), n. lop, v.] The action of a horse that gallops; a lop, v.] running at a gallop. I did hear IMG:content-2049.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A ride at a gallop; the act of riding mal on the gallop.-3. A kind of dance. See galop. - Canterbury gallop [so named from Canter- bury : the allusion is said to be to the ambling pace at which pilgrims rode to Canterbury, but this is probably fanciful], a moderate gallop of a horse: commonly abbre- viated to canter (which see). Also called aubin . False gallopt, in the manège , apparently, an awkward pace. Beat . What pace is this that thy tongue keeps? Marg. Not a false gallop . Shak., Much Ado, iii. 4. This is the very false gallop of verses. Shak ., As you Like it, iii. 2. IMG:content-2050.jpg:[ocr errors] ceeding at a gallop; hence, figurative Proce v .] Proceeding ly, ly, advancing advancing rapidly; making rapid progre : as, a galloping consumption loping consumption (that is, a consumption that proceeds rapidly to a fatal term in a tion). IMG:content-2051.jpg:[blocks in formation] The wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves. Shak ., Lear, iii. 2.