gallery picture, gallery painting

A picture in which the figures or animals represented are life-size or larger; a landscape of more than five feet in width. *gâl-le , gaul-le , a . [ Eng. gall (1); -le .] Free from or without gall or bitterne . "Such mild and gaulle spirits, so receptive of virtuous impre ions." -Bates: Ashurst's Funeral Sermon. *gal-le-tyle, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A gallipot (q. v.). "Make a compound body of gla and galletyle ; that is, to have the color milky like a chalcedon, being a stuff between a porcellane and a gla ."--Bacon: Physical Re mains. IMG:content-0290.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] triremes, quinqueremes, ., were galleys having so many banks of oars-two, three, five, . The pen tec on tori had fifty oars in a single tier. "And for those boats, longæ naves, or gallies , Pliny saith, that Ægesias ascribeth the device to Paralus: and Phi lost epha nus to Jason: Ctesias to Samyras and Saphanus to Semi ram is: Arch i mach us to Ægeon."Raleigh: History of the World , bk. i., ch. viii., § 3. (2) A low, flat-built ve el with one deck, and navigated with sails and oars, formerly common in the Mediterranean. They varied in length from 100 to 200 feet, the smaller being called half - galleys , and the smallest-sized quarter-galleys. They carried as many as twenty oars on each side, each worked by several men, generally slaves. They were two-masted, and had two lateen sails. The largest were called gallea es. [GALLEASS.] They were of 130 feet koel, 30 feet beam, three masts, thirty banks [BANK, 8. , I. 1] of two oars each, each oar manned by six chained slaves. They were introduced into France in the reign of Charles VI., 1963 and manned by criminals. [GALLEY-SLAVE.] He kept forty in his service. They were abolished by Louis XV. in 1748. (3) Any boat of a large size; a state barge. "And each proud galley , as she pa ed, To the wild cadence of the blast Gave wilder minstrelsy." Scott: Lord of the Isles, i. 15. (4) A clinker-built boat for ship's use, from 28 to 36 feet long, and with a beam equal to one-fifth of its length. It is light and sharp, carrying from ten to twelve oars, and is used for speedy rowing on expeditions. It usually has six alternate oars rowed by a picked crew. (5) An open boat used on the Thames by English Custom-house officers, river-police, and formerly by pre -gangs, . (6) The cook-house on board ship, which is on deck, or in a forward part of the ve el. 2. Distill .: A Gallery-furnace (q. v.). 3. Print .: An oblong tray which receives matter from the composing-stick, and on which it is ar ranged in a column or page. The galley has a ledge on both sides and at top, half an inch in height. From this it is taken to the imposing-stone and arranged in a chase. The galley sometimes has a groove to admit a false bottom, called a galley slice.