galleridæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. galler ( ia ), and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] Entom .: A family of moths, tribe Pyralid in a. The antenne are simple, the basal joint generally with a tuft of scales beneath the labial palpi, short in the male, long and porrected in the female. Larva with sixteen legs, feeding on wax in beehives. ( Stainton .) *găl-ler-iěd, a . [Eng. gallery : -ed.] Furnished with a gallery or galleries. găl-ler-ỹ, *gal-ar-y, *gal-ler-ie, s . [O. Fr. gallerie (Fr. galerie ), from Ital. galleria , from Low Lat. galeria =a long portico, a gallery; Sp. & Port. galeria .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A room or apartment of much greater length than breadth, serving as a means of communication between the different rooms of a building; a corridor. "Searching all wounded the long galleries ; And the voyd courtes." Surrey: Virgil's Æneid, ii. 2. A room used for the exhibition of pictures or other works of art; hence, a collection of pictures, statues, . "As fine a gallery of pictures as any burgomaster of Amsterdam."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiv. 3. A partial story in a room for auditors, musicians, .; a platform projecting from the walls of a room, and supported by brackets, pillars, or consoles, and overlooking the ground-floor; as, a gallery in a church, theater, . "Nor is the shape of our cathedrals proper for our preaching auditories, but rather the figure of an amphitheater, with galleries gradually overlooking each other; for into this condition the parish churches of London are driving apace, as appears by the many galleries every day built in them." - Graunt. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, păt, gallery-cla 4. The occupants of a gallery at any performance. Sometimes called " the gods." "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. To play to the gallery: To court the applause of the vulgar. *5. An ornamental walk or apartment in gardens formed by trees. "In most part there had been framed by art such pleas ant arbors, that, one answering another, they became a gallery aloft from tree to tree."-Sidney. II. Technically : 1. Fort .: A covered pa age in a work, either for defense or communication, as one beneath the counterscarp and loopholed, or communicating between the enceinte and an outwork. A gallery in a scarp having embrasures becomes a casemate. 2. Min .: An adit or drift in a mine, either as a means of working, of drainage, or of ventilation. 3. Naut .: A balcony projecting from the after part of a ship, as the quarter - gallery , stern - gallery . Whispering gallery: [WHISPERING.]