galleta grass (gal at a gras)

[Sp. galleta, hard-tack.] A very coarse, hard bunch-gra of the southwestern United States. galleting, gal letting (gal'et-ing), n. [Verbal n. of gallet, v.] The act of inserting chips of stone or flint into the joints of rubblework while the mortar is wet. Also called garret ing, gar retting. galletylet, n. See gallitile. IMG:content-2036.jpg:[graphic] = ter. While all its throats the gallery extends, And all the thunder of the pit ascends! Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. 1. 326. The galleries would certainly lose much of their veneration for the theatrical kings, queens, and nobles, if they were to see them behind the scenes, unbe dizened. V. Knox, Spirit of Despotism, § 23. 6t. An ornamental walk or inclosure in a garden, sometimes formed by trees or shrubs. These kinde of tar ra es or little galleries of pleasure, Suet on i us calleth Meniana. Coryat, Crudities, I. 205. 7. An underground pa age. Specifically-(a) Α horizontal or inclined subterranean pa age, whether cut in the soil or built in masonry, connecting different parts of a fortification, or a fortification with a mine or series of mines. In military engineering a gallery is an underground pa age whose dimensions exceed 3 by 4 feet; when of le size, it is called a branch or branch gallery. See scarp gallery (under scarp ) and counterscarp gallery (under counterscarp ). (b) In mining, a level or drift. [Rarely used except in translating the French word galerie.] 8. In zoöl., a long narrow excavation of any kind made by an animal, as the underground pa ages dug by a mole, the boring of an insect, etc.-9. Naut., a frame like a balcony projecting from the stern and quarters of a ship. The part at the stern is called the stern - gallery, that at the quarters the quarter - gallery.-10. In fur niture- making, a small ornamental parapet or railing running along the edge of the top of a table, shelf of a cabinet, or the like, intended to prevent objects from being pushed off. In decorated furniture of the eighteenth century the galleries were an important feature. They were commonly of gilt bronze. Gallery hit, shot, etc., a showy or superficially brilliant play in a game, such as to win applause from the spectators. [Colloq.] - Whispering-gallery, a gallery or dome in which the sound of words uttered in a low voice or whisper is communicated to a greater distance than under any ordinary circumstances. Thus, in an elliptical chamber, if a person standing in one of the foci speak in a whisper he will be heard distinctly by a person standing in the other focus, although the same sound would not be audible at the same distance under any other circumstances or at any other place in the cham and later two masts, but depended primarily upon its oars, ranged in a single line on each side, and each handled by one rower. It was rated according to the whole number of these. The principal sizes were the triaconter, of thirty oars, and the penteconter, of fifty. Ships of this form continued to be used as ve els of burden, but were early superseded for war by galleys rated according to the number of banks of oars or ranks of rowers, as the bireme (a two-banked ve el), trireme, quadrireme, etc. Greater numbers of banks are mentioned, up to forty banks of oars in a ve el of enormous size built for Ptolemy Philopator of Egypt. How these numerous banks of oars were arranged is not definitely known; it is probable that not more than three could have been placed one above another. The first recorded Roman fleet consisted wholly of triremes, and this was always the most common armament. The ancient naval ve els were long, sharp, and narrow in model, like a modern steamer, were capable of great speed, and carried large crews. Full decks, or several decks, were in time substituted for the primitive half-deck, or the short decks at the stem and stern; and rams, towers, and other means of offense and defense were added. Galleys continued in use in the Mediterranean and other seas till late in the seventeenth century, ordinary ones in later times having from five to twenty-five oars on a side in a single row, each oar worked by several men, with two or three masts and triangular sails; and indeed they may be considered as not yet entirely obsolete, being represented by the feluccas and boats of similar model on the Mediterranean and neighboring seas. Larger ve els were called gallea es. (See gallea .) The labor of rowing was from an early date a igned to mercenaries, and afterward to slaves and prisoners of war; and in some countries, especially France, nearly all criminals were condemned to service on the galleys of the state, and were hence called galley -slaves. See trireme. Whan the Saisnes [Saxons] saugh the Galeyes , the i were full gladde, and ronne in who that myght first in the grettest haste. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 597. It is made a gally matter to carry a knife whose poynt is not broken off. Evelyn , Diary, Oct. 17, 1644. The Dromones, or light gallies , of the Byzantine empire were content with two tiers of oars. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, liii. King Ferdinand's galleys were spread with rich carpets and awnings of yellow and scarlet, and every sailor in the fleet exhibited the same gaudy-colored livery of the royal house of Aragon. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 20. 2. A state barge; a large boat, especially one used in display; in a special use, an open boat formerly employed on the Thames in England by custom-house officers and pre -gangs, and for pleasure. And each proud galley , as she pa ed To the wild cadence of the blast, IMG:content-2037.png:[blocks in formation] trading with galleys; specifically, an Italian merchant who landed wines, etc., from the gal- leys at a place called "Galley-key" in Thames street, London. galley-news (gal'i-nūz), n. rumor. [Colloq.] galley-proof (gal'i-pröf), n. on a galley. galley-punt (gal'i-punt), n. An open boat used on the coast of England for communicating with ships. Right ahead of us was a small galley - punt , flashing through the seas under her fragment of reefed canvas. W. C. Ru ell, Jack's Courtship, xxiii. galley-rack (gal'i-rak), n. In printing , a series of inclined brackets made to hold galleys. galley-rest (gal'i-rest), n. In printing , two projecting arms or brackets, inclined, to hold a galley; or a ledge fixed upon a compositor's upper case to hold the galley temporarily out of his way. galley-slave (gal'i-slāv), η. 1. A person con- demned for a crime to work at the oar on board a galley. This practice no longer exists, but the French still use the equivalent term galérien interchangeably with forçat (which see). Liberty. Blushed, that effects like these she should produce, Worse than the deeds of galley - slaves broke loose. Cowper , Table-Talk, 1. 327. 2. A compositor, jocosely regarded as bound to the "galley." Moxon , Mech. Exercises, p. 362. galleytilet (gal'i-til), n. Same as gallitile . galley-work (gal'i-werk), n. Work in baked top. Bra galleys, and also some wooden galleys, are flanged on both sides, and on these the type can be locked clay; pottery in general. with cleats, on which type is kept standing. galley-archt (gal'i-ärch), n. pl. A structure for the reception and security of galleys in port . Hamersly . Compare galley - house . galley-balk (gal'i-bak), n . [Also galley bauk , gallybauk , -bawk ; galley + balk1 .] A balk in the chimney, with a crook, on which to hang pots, etc. Brockett . [Prov. Eng.] Like the pothooks by means of which pots were hung over cottage fires from the galley - bawk , which in those days was to be found stretched acro every house-place chimney. N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 393. galley-bird (gal'i-bėrd), n. A woodpecker. galley-cabinet (gal'i-kab"i-net), n. In print- ing , a series of shallow pigeonholes with in- clined supports, in which galleys of type are placed. no mention of such company as you would draw unto you, captains of galley - foists , such as in a clear day have seen Calais. Beau , and Fl ., Scornful Lady, i. 2. galley-worm, n . See gally - worm . galley-yarn (gal'i-yärn), n. Naut., an un- founded rumor or tale, such as is often heard in ships' galleys. [Colloq.] gall-fly (gal'fli), n. [= G. gall - fliege ; as gall3 + fly2.] An insect which occasions galls on plants by puncturing them; especially, a hy- menopter of the group Gallicola or Diplolepa- riæ , as a cynipid. See gall3 , and cut under Cy- nips. - Guest gall-flies. See Inquilina . gall-gnat (gal'nat), n. The popular name of those dipterous insects of the family Cecidomy- idæ which make galls on plants. Most of them belong to the genera Cecidomyia and Diplosis . The larva is a minute, legle , usually reddish maggot, which for the most part spins a delicate cocoon, oftenest underground, before transforming to pupa; the adult is a very graceful, galls of the sev- eral species on different plants are extremely diverse in form and character; they are often found on annu- al plants, which is seldom the b case with those of the gall- makers of the hymenopterous family Cynipi- dæ. Gallil(gal'i), n . pl. [L., pl. Gall-gnat (female), a species of Cecidomyia , natural size; b, male antenna, magnified. gaillart , gallart , galhart = Sp. gallardo = Pg. galhardo = It. gagliardo , gay, lively, brisk, merry. Origin uncertain. II. n. gaillard , a jolly, gay fellow; in def. 2, like F. gaillarde , gallarda , a lively dance, fem. of gallar- do , lively. See I.] I. a. Brisk; gay; lively; jaunty. (Archaic.] Gaylard he was, as goldfynch in the schawe. Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 3. Er . We either, looking on each other, thrive- An . Shoot up, grow galliard Er. Yes, and more alive! A landsman could hardly have worn this garb and shown this face, and worn and shown them both with such a galliard air, without undergoing stern question before a magistrate. Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, p. 273. These wretched Com par in i were once gay And galiard , of the modest middle cla . galliardne t (gal'yärd-nes), n. Gaiety. His rest failed him, his countenance changed, his sprightful pleasance and galliard ne abated. Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 206. gallia t, n. See gallea . Gallic1 (gal'ik), a. [L. Gallic us , pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls, Gallia , Gaul, Gallus , a Gaul: see Gaull .] Of or pertaining to Gaul or France. The sturdy squire to Gallic masters stoop, And drown his lands and manors in a soupe. galley-halfpennyt (gal'i-hā'pe-ni), n.; pl. gal- galliambi, n. Plural of gall iambus . ley - halfpence (-pens). [Early mod. E. galyhalf- galliambic (gal-i-am'bik), a. and n. [L. gal- solution it produces a deep bluish-black precipitate. It is used in medicine as an astringent, and is well known as an ingredient in ink. See ink . liambicus (LGr. γαλλιαμβικόν, neut., sc. μέτρον, meter), gall iambus : see gall iambus .] I. a. Constituting a gall iambus; consisting of gall i- ambi: an epithet of a variety of Ionic verse said to have first come into use among the Galli or priests of the Phrygian Cybele. See gall iambus . II. n. A gall iambus; a verse consisting of four Ionics a minore with variations and sub- 2. Specifically, pertaining to the Roman Catho- Gallican (gal'i-kan), a. and n. [L. Gallic us , Gallia , Gaul: see Gaull .] I. a. 1. Of or per- taining to Gaul or France. gall iambus (gal-i-am'bus), n.; pl. galliambi (-bī). [L. gall iambus , lit. a song of the Galli, so called from its a ociation with the worship of the Phrygian godde Cybele, whose priests, the Galli, are said to have used such measures in lines of invective or raillery: see Gallus2 and iambus.] In pros ., a kind of Ionic verse consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which wants the final syllable. The gall iambus is also called metroïacon . Galliant (gal'i-an), a . [ Gallia , Gaul, + -an.] Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French. [Rare.] An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves A Gallian girl at home. in Garrod's cla ification, an order of a sub- cla Homa log on atæ , consisting of the three cohorts Strut hi ones, Gall in ace a, and Psittaci . [Not in use.] galligaskins (gal-i-gas'kinz), n . pl . [Formerly also gallygaskins , gallygascoynes , gal log as coins (abbr. gaskins , gascoynes ); a corruption (due to a mistaken notion that "these trowsers were first worn by the Gallic Gascons , i. e., the inhabi- tants of Gascony"-Webster's Dict.) of OF. gar- guesques , Norm. gargache , a perverted form of greguesques, "slops, gregs, gal log as coins, Veni- tians," which appears contracted in " gregues , wide slops, gregs, gal log as coins, Venitians, great Gascon or Spanish hose" (Cotgrave), really of Italian (Venetian) origin, chesco , Greekish, grego , gregs . Cf. pantaloons , also of Venetian origin.] 1. A fashion of hose or slops worn in the sixteenth century. Also called gregs , venetians , and gaskins . My galligaskins , that have long withstood The winter's fury and encroaching frosts,... A horrid chasm disclosed. 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Spenser, Shep. Cal., Ded. They have a dance, which the wenches say is a gall i- maufry of gambols, because they are not in 't. Shak., W. T., iv. 3. Their Alcoran itself a gallimaufry of lies, tales, cere- monies, traditions, precepts. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 622. Gallicè (gal'i-sē), adv . [L. Gallice , in French (Gallic), Gallic us , Gallic, French: see Gallic1 .] 3. A medley of persons. [Humorous.] He woos both high and low, both rich and poor, Both young and old, one with another, Ford; He loves the gally - maufry , Ford, perpend. Gallinaceæ (gal-i-nā'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL., pl. fem. of L. gall in ace us : see gallinaceous .] The rasorial birds proper, commonly rated as an order or suborder, and containing all kinds of domestic fowls or poultry, and their feral rela- tives, as turkeys, pheasants, grouse, partridges, quails, guinea-fowls, the mound-birds of Aus- tralia, the cura ows, hoccos, guans, etc.: equiv- alent to the old order Rasores minus the pi- geons. It is an old name of the group, used with varying latitude, and now le frequently employed than (which see for technical characters). Also Galli . gallinacean (gal-i-nā'shian), a. and n. Ι. a. Of or pertaining to the Gall in ace a . Gallicolæ (ga-lik'ō-lē), n . pl . [NL., pl. of gall i- Gall in ace i (gal-i-na'sē-i), n . pl . [NL., pl. pl. of cola : see gallicolous .] 1. In Latreille's system of cla ification, a tribe of hymenopterous in sometimes the same as Rasores . sects of the section Pupivora , corresponding to the Diplolepariæ , riæ , and to the modern family Cynipida ; the gall-flies.-2. In Meigen's sys- tem (1818), a group of dipterous insects of his family Tipulariæ , containing the genus Ceci- domyia and other genera, and corresponding pretty accurately to the modern family Cecido- myidæ ; the gall-gnats or gall-midges. gallicolous (ga-lik'ō-lus), a . gall in ace us.] Same as Gall in ace a or Gallina ; gallinaceous (gal-i-nā'shius), a. [L. gallina- ceus , pertaining to poultry, gallina , a hen, all in a , a hen. gallus , a cock.] Having the characters of a bird of the order Gallina or Gallinaceæ ; rasorial. Spallanzani has remarked a circumstantial resemblance between the stomachs of gallinaceous fowls and the struc- IMG:content-2040.jpg:[blocks in formation] Gallinæ (ga-li'nē), n . pl . [NL., pl. of L. gall i- na , a hen, gallus , a cock.] 1. A Linnean or- der of birds, the fifth of the system, comp of the genera Didus , Pavo , Meleagris , Crax , Phasianus , Numida , and Tetrao . It is practical- ly the same as the later order Gallinaceæ , or Rasores without the pigeons.-2. An order sundry non-conformable genera have been eliminated; the same as the Alec toro morphæ of Huxley. It is a group of chiefly terrestrial polygamous IMG:content-2041.jpg:[graphic][subsumed] IMG:content-2042.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-2043.png:[blocks in formation]