gallipot1 (galipot)

[Formerly also gally pot, galliepot, galiepot; appar. a corruption (with accent orig. on the second syllable) of OD. gleypot, a gallipot (cf. gleywerk, glazed work), gleye, gley, shining potters' clay (cf. North Fries. gläy, shining, D. gleis, glazed, varnished), + pot, pot. The same first element appears in gallitile, q. v.] A small pot or ve el, painted and glazed, used by druggists and apothecaries for holding medicines. The gallypots of apothecaries. on the outside had apes and owls and antiques, but contained within sovereign and precious liquors and confections. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 35. Sir Humphry Davy himself was apprenticed to an apothecary, and made his first experiments in chemistry with his master's phials and gallipots . Everett, Orations, I. 304. gallipot2, n. See galipot . gallisize (gal'i-sīz), v . t .; pret. and pp. gall i sized , ppr. gallisizing . Same as gallize . [Rare.] Science affords a means of distinguishing a gallisized from a natural wine, if the added sugar consisted of dextrose. Encyc . Brit ., XXIV. 603.