Galaxy (galaksi)

[ spreads out very widely, exhibiting a fan-like expanse of interlacing branches nearly 20° broad; this terminates abruptly and leaves a kind of gap. At several points are seen dark spots in the midst of some of the brightest portions. "Now," quod he tho, "cast up thyn ye, Se yonder, lo, the Galaxie The whiche men clepe the Melky Weye, For hit ys white and som me, parfeye, Callen hyt Watlynge strete." Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 936. IMG:content-2017.jpg:[graphic] A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy , that milky way, Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest Powder'd with stars. Milton , P. L., vii. 579. Hence-2. [ l . c.; pl. galaxies (-siz).] Any as- Galbulidæ (gal-bū'li-dē), n. pl. [NL., bula + -idæ .] A family of fi irostral zygodac- tylous non-pa erine neo tropical birds; the jac- amars. It is characterized by the absence of the am- biens or acce ory femorocaudal muscles; a nude else- odochon; large cæca; two carotids; one pair of intrinsic the first is short; 10 or 12 rectrices; lashed eye- lids; operculate nostrils, bare of feathers; rictal vibri æ; bill long, generally straight, slender, and acute; the feet feeble, with toes in pairs (in one genus the feet three toed), the second toe united to the third as far as the middle of the second phalanx; and tarsi partly or imper- fectly scutellate. The Galbulidæ have somewhat the as- pect and habit of kingfishers, with which they were for ( Bucconide ), and next the bee-eaters ( Meropidæ ) and roll- ers ( Coraciide ). There are 18 species and 6 genera, Uro- galba , Galbula , Brachygalba , Jacamaralcyon, Galbalcy- albaturhynchuse rhynchus, and Jacamar ops . See jacamar , and cut under My craft aground, and heard with beating heart The Sweet - Gale rustle round the shelving keel. Galbulinæ (gal-bū-līnē), n. pl . [NL., Gal- bula + -inæ.] A subfamily of Galbulidæ , the jacamars proper, representing the whole of the family excepting the genus Jacamar ops . The term was formerly equivalent to Galbulida . gale6 (gal), v . i.; pret. and pp. galed , ppr. gal- P. L. Sclater . See cut under jacamar . Galbalcyrhynchus (gal-bal-si-ring'kus), n. galbulus (gal bū-lus), n.; pl. galbuli (-li). [L., as wood. [NL. (Des Murs, 1845), intended to signify a jacamar with a bill like a kingfisher's, b ( ula ) + alcy ( on ), kingfisher, + Gr. ῥύγχος , bill.] A genus of Galbulida , having the characters of Galbula , but a short, nearly even tail as in Kingfisher Jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis). the nut of the cypre -tree.] In bot . , a spheri- cal cone formed of thickened peltate scales with a narrow base, as in the cypre , or berry-like with fleshy coherent scales, as in the juniper. IMG:content-2018.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] That go me [person] that gyrnes [grins] or gales , I myself sall hym hurte full sore. York Plays , p. 321. II. trans. To sing; utter with musical modu- lations. The lusty nightingale He myghte not slepe in al the nyghtertale, But Domine labia gan he crye and gale . Court of Love, 1. 1356. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. in all uses.] IMG:content-2019.png:[blocks in formation] [ gale , a wind, breeze; prob. of Scand. origin: cf. Dan. gal = Sw. galen , furious, mad, = Norw. galen , furious, vio- lent, wild, mad, etc. (particularly used of wind and storm: ein galen storm, eit galet veder ( veer ) , a furious storm), = Icel. galinn , furious, mad, frantic, prop. pp. of gala , sing, chant (cf. gal- dra- hridh , a storm raised by spells): see galel . Le prob. gol , mod. gola , a breeze. Cf. Ir. gal , smoke, vapor, steam, heat, gal gaoithe , a gale of wind ( gaoth , wind).] 1. A strong natu- ral current of air; a wind; a breeze; more spe- cifically, in nautical use, a wind between a stiff breeze and a storm or tempest: generally with some qualifying epithet: as, a gentle, moderate, brisk, fresh, stiff, strong, or hard gale . tom ., an appendage of the stipes of the maxilla of some insects, as dist in- guished from the lacinia, another appendage of the IMG:content-2020.jpg:[blocks in formation] Thus, in the cock- roach the galea is A little gale will soon disperse that cloud. And winds Of gentlest gale Arabian odours fann'd From their soft wings. Milton , P. R., ii. 364. Both shores were lost to sight, when at the close Of day a stiffer gale at East arose: The sea grew white; the rolling waves from far, Like heralds, first denounce the watery war. 2. Figuratively, a state of noisy excitement, as of hilarity or of pa ion. [Colloq.] The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast going into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale . Brooke, IMG:content-2021.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2022.jpg:[blocks in formation] galbuli, n. Plural of galbulus . galbulid (gal'bū-lid), n. A bird of the family Myrica Gale , a shrub growing in marshy places Galbulida ; a a jacamar. Galega Goat's rue, or, as others call it, galega , may without disgust be taken somewhat plentifully in its entire substance as a salad. Boyle , Insalubrity and Salubrity of the Air. 2434 in 1664 by Galen Abraham de Haan, a physician and preacher of Amsterdam, constituting the Arm in i an division of the Water landers. A subordinal name for all the sharks or selachians except the Rhinæ.