Galaxy 
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, 
And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, 
Seen in the ijulajcij, that milky way, 
Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest 
Powdi-r'd with stars. Milton, P. L, vii. 579. 
Hence 2. [/. c.; pi. galaxies (-siz).] Any as- 
semblage of splendid, illustrious, or beautiful 
persons or things. 
Often has my mind hung with fondness and admiration 
over the crowded, yet clear and luminous, galaxie.8 of 
imagery, diffused through the works of Bishop Taylor. 
Parr. 
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Galbulidae (gal-bu'li-de), . pi. [NL., < Gal- 
bula + -idee.] A family of fissirostral zygodac- 
tylous non-passerine neotropical birds ; the jac- 
amars. It is characterized by the absence of the am- 
biens or accessory femorocaudal muscles; a nude ela?- 
odochon ; large cajca ; two carotids ; one pair of intrinsic 
syringeal muscles; aftershafted plumage; 10 primaries, 
of which the first is short ; 10 or 12 rectrices ; lashed eye- 
lids ; opercnlate nostrils, bare of feathers ; rictal vibrissa; ; 
bill long, generally straight, slender, and acute ; the feet 
Galega 
America: more usually called sweet-gale, from 
its pleasant aromatic odor. 
I boated over, ran 
My craft aground, and heard with beating heart 
The Sweet-Gale rustle round the shelving keel. 
Tennysott, Edwin Morris- 
[Contr. of gavefi, q. v.] 1. A 
of rent, interest, duty, or 
custom; an instalment of money. [Eng.] 2. 
il ong, generay srag, sener, an acue ; e ee , . <. 
feeble, with toes in pairs (in one genus the feet three- The right of a free miner to have possession of 
Galba (gal'ba), . [NL., < L. galba, a small 
worm, the ash-borer.] 1. In zool. : (a) A ge- 
nus made to include such species of Limn&a as 
L. iMlustrix. Schranek, 1803. (6) A genus of 
arachnidans. Heyden, 1826. (c) A supposed 
genus of worms. Johnston, 1834. (d) A genus 
of sternoxine beetles, of the family Eucnemida:, (Ja'ib'nliriae 
having a few species, all of the Malay archipel- 
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 (jalbulidce have somewhat the as- 
pect and habit of kingfishers, with which they were for- 
merly associated ; their nearest relatives are the puff -birds 
(BucconidiK), and next the bee-eaters (Meropidos) and roll- 
ers (Coraciida). There are 18 species and 6 genera, Uro- 
galba, (ralbuln, Ilrachygalba, Jacamaralcyon, Galbalcy- 
'rhynchus, and Jacamarops. See jacamar, and cut under 
al-bu-li'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Gal- 
A' subfamily of Galbulidce, the gale 6 (gal), y. i. 
a plot of land within the Forest of Dean and 
hundred of St. Briavels, in England, and to 
work the coal and iron thereunder Gale of In- 
terest, obligation to pay interest periodically ; also, inter- 
est due or to become due. Hanging gale, rent in arrears. 
Rent would be collected by revenue officers with as 
much regularity as the taxes. We should hear no more 
of "hanging gale," of large remissions, of accumulated 
arrears. Edinburgh /tew., CLXIII. 587. 
pret. and pp. galed, p 
r. gal- 
_ , _ - .. 
ago. 2. [/. c.] The wood of Calophyllum cola- j acamars pr oper, representing the whole of the ing. [E. dial.] 
ba, a large tree of Trinidad. It is strong and t - amily excepting the genus Jacamarops. The as the fingers. 
durable, and one of the best woods of the re- term wag formel .i y equivalent to Galbulidai. gale 6 (gal), v. i.; pret. and pp. galed, ppr. gal- 
gion. 
Galbalcyrb.yncb.us (gal -bal- si -ring 'kus), n. 
[NL. (Des Murs, 1845), intended to signify a 
jacamar with a bill like a kingfisher's, < Gal- 
b(ula) + alcy(on), kingfisher, + Gr. pwy^of, bill.] 
A genus of Galbulidce, having the characters 
of Galbula, but a short, nearly even tail as in 
P. L. Sclater. See" cut" under jacamar. ing- TE-dial.] To crack with heat or dryness, 
'albulus (gal'bu-lus), n. ; pi. galbuli (-11). [L., as wood. 
the nut of the cypress-tree.] In bot., a spheri- gale 7 t, [Cf. galley-halfpenny.] A copper com. 
cal cone formed of thickened peltate scales with And thanne the Dely ved to every Pylgryme a candyll ot 
wax brennyng in his honde All the masse tyme, flor which 
Candyll they recyvyd of every Pylgryme v gale ob. 
Kingfisher Jacamar ( Galbalcyrhyachus leucotis). 
Brachygalba, of 12 feathers, and a comparatively 
a narrow base, as in the cypress, or berry-like 
with fleshy coherent scales, as in the juniper. 
See cut under Cupressus. 
gale 1 (gal), v. [ME. galen, sing, cry, croak, < 
AS. galan (pret. gol, pp. galen), sing, = OS. galan 
= OHG. galan, sing, = Icel. gala, sing, chant, 
crow, = Sw. gala = Dan. gale, crow. A deriv. 
of this verb appears in comp. nightingale, q. v., 
and prob., more remotely, in gale%.~\ I. intrans. 
1. To sing. 2. To cry; groan; croak. Hence 
3. Of a person, to "croak"; talk. 
Now telleth forth, thogh that the somonour gale, 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 38. 
That gome [person] that gyrnes [grins] or gales, 
I myself sail 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.] 
, - n _ *?< gale f v ^ j. A son g.-2. 
i di- Obsolete or prov. Eng. 
uses.J 
with dark wings and tail, and white ears and bill, inhabit- L- --- 
igtheregionof the upper Amazon. Also written Galbal- gale 2 (gal), n. [< ME. gale, a wind, breeze; 
cyorhynchus. 
galban (gal'ban), n 
galben, < L. galbanum : see galbanum.] 
as galbanum. 
[ME. galbane = G. galban, 
~ Same 
[Now seldom used.] 
prob. of Scand. origin: cf. Dan. 
= Sw. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 26. 
galea (ga'le-S,), n. ; pi. galete (-e). [L., a hel- 
met.] 1. A hel- 
met, or some- 5 
thing resem- 
bling a helmet 
in shape or po- 
sition, (a) [cap.] 
In zool., a genus of 
fossil sea-urchins 
or echini of galeate 
form, (b) In en- 
torn., an appendage 
of the stipes of the 
maxilla of some 
insects, as distin- 
guished from the 
lacinia, another 
appendage of the 
same gnathite. 
Thus, in the cock- 
roach the galea is 
soft, rounded, and possibly sensory in function, while the 
lacinia is a hard curved blade, serrate and spinose. See 
lacinia. 
The extremity of the maxilla; is often terminated by 
two divisions or lobes, of which the outer, in the Orthop- 
tera, is termed the galea. 
In Cuvier's Regne Anim. (tr. of 1849), p. 474. 
Under Surface of Head of Tumble-bug 
(Copris Carolina}, about four times natural 
size, i, galea ; 2, palpifer ; 3, lacinia ; 4, 
subgalea ; 5, maxiliary palp ; 6, stipes. 
nnlfn furious marl Norw nalpn furious vio- <c) In orntA., a frontal shield, as that of a coot or galli 
galen, tunous, maa, _ n >rw. gaien, zu ^ & h ue u the head m that of the cag90 
lent, wild, mad, etc. (particularly used ot wind wary (see cut under ca , sm , a ry) a great helmet-like boss 
and storm: ein galen storm, eitgaletveder (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 grate 1 . 
... v. ; = F. galbanum = Pr. galbani, galba = Less prob. < Icel. gol, mod. gala, a breeze. Cf. 
Sp. qdlbano = Pg. It. galbano, < L. galbanum, Ir. gal, smoke, vapor, steam, heat, gal gaoithe, a -~ -- -.--- -- -- - ---=v-- - 
LL. also galbanus and chalbane, Gr. X a\ji6.vr,, < ga i e of wind (gaoth, wind).] 1. A strongnatu- 2. In pathol., headache extending all over the 
Heb. khelb'ndh, galbanum, < khalab, be fat; cf. ? a l current of air; a wind; a breeze; more spe- head. 3. In surg., a bandage for the head. 
khalab, milk.] A gum resin obtained from spe- cifically, in nautical use, a wind between a stiff Balea caDltls - Kalea aDoneurotlca. in human anat., 
cies of Ferula, especially F. galbaniflua and F. breeze and a storm or tempest : generally with 
Brymstoon and galbane oute chaseth gnattes. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 33. 
galbanum (gal'ba-num), . [Also rarely galban, 
nule ; a horny casque upon the head, as that of the casso- 
wary (see cut under cansowary) ; a great helmet-like boss 
upon the bill, as in the hornbill. See cut under hornbill. 
(d) In anat. : (1) The amnion ; especially, the part of the 
amnion which may cover the head of a new-born infant 
like a cowl. Also called caul. (2) The galea capitis (which 
see, below), (e) In bot., a name given to the parts of the 
calyx or corolla when they assume the form of a helmet, 
as the upper lip of a ringent corolla. 
rubricaulis, of the desert regions of Persia, it 
occurs in the form of translucent tears, and has a peculiar 
aromatic odor and a disagreeable alliaceous taste. It is 
used in medicine as a stimulating expectorant and as an 
ingredient in plasters. 
Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and 
nalbanum ; . . . thou shalt make it a perfume. 
Ex. xxx. 34, 35. 
galbe (galb), n. [P., contour, sweep, curve, 
etc., OF. galbe, also garbe, a garb, comeliness, 
gracefulness, > E. garb 1 , q. v.] In art, the gen- 
eral outline or form of any rounded object, as 
a head or vase ; especially, in architecture, the 
curved form of a column, a Doric capital, or other 
similar feature. 
galbula (gal'bu-lii), n. [L., dim. of galbina, 
some small bird, "perhaps the yellow oriole (< 
galbus, yellow, of Teut. origin, G. gelb, yellow: 
see yellow), a different reading of galgulus, some 
small bird, the witwall.] 1 . The classical name 
of some yellow bird of Europe, supposed to be 
the golden oriole, and the technical specific 
name of this oriole, Oriolus galbula. The name 
was also applied by Mohring in 1752 to a South American 
Galea capitis, galea aponeurotica, in human anat., 
names of the occipitofrpntalis muscle, and especially of 
its tendinous aponeurosis, which covers the vertex of the 
skull like a cap. 
galeast, See galleass. 
galeate (ga'le-at), a. [< L. galeatus, pp. of ga- 
leare, cover with a helmet, < galea, a helmet: 
see galea.'] 1. Covered with a helmet, or fur- 
nished with something having the shape or 
position of a helmet, (a) In entom., provided with 
a galea, as the maxillse of certain insects, (b) In ornith., 
having on the head a crest of feathers resembling a hel- 
met; or, and oftener, having a horny casque upon the 
head, as the cassowary, or a frontal shield, as a coot or 
gallinule. (c) In bot., having a galea. (d) In iehth., having 
a casque-like induration of the skin of the head, as many 
siluroid fishes. 
2. Helmet-shaped: as, a galeate echinus; the 
galeate upper sepal of the monk's-hood. 
some qualifying epithet : as, a gentle, moderate 
brisk, fresh, stiff, strong, or hard gale. 
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 3. 
And winds 
Of gentlest gale Arabian odours fann'd 
From their soft wings. Milton, P. K,, 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. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., x. 
2. Figuratively, a state of noisy excitement, as 
of hilarity or of passion. [Colloq.] 
The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast going into what, 
in New England, is sometimes called a gale. Brooke. 
3. By extension, an odor-laden current of air. 
[Rare.] (cafe-beer (cral'ber), n. A" beer flavored with 
At last, to our joy, dinner was announced ; but oh, ye s~" " v * _ f Linrl of TioatriPr or nprhans 
gods ! as we entered the dining-room, what agale met our the blossoms Ot a Kina ot nt wner, or perna] 
nose ! Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland, vi. sweet-gale. It is made chiefly m Yorkshire, 
Mackerel gale, either a gale that ripples the surface of and is said to be of ancient origin. [Eng.] 
the sea, or one which is suitable for catching mackerel, as gale-day (gal'da), n. Rent-day. [Eng.] 
this fish is caught .with the bait in motion. = Syn. 1. Tern- g a j ee (ga-le'), n. [< gale* + -eel.] lacoal-min- 
pat,_ete._ _9ee nnd?, n^ _ ^ m __ ^ jwi/, the'person to whom a gale has been grant- 
ed. [Forest of Dean, Eng.] 
[= Sc. gaul, < ME. gawl, gawyl 
G. viridif is a characteristic example. See cut under 
jaminar. 
galbuli, . Plural of galbulus. 
galbulid (gal'bu-lid), n. A bird of the family 
Galbitlidte; a jacamar. 
= Icel. *gagl, in comp. gaglridhr, occurring but 
once, and supposed to mean myrtle, sweet-gale, 
< "gagl + vidhr = AS. wudu, wood, tree.] The 
Myrica Gale, a shrub growing in marshy places 
in northern Europe and Asia and in North 
leguminous 
blue or white flowers and linear cylindrical 
pods. There are 3 or 4 species, of southern Europe and 
western Asia. The goat's-rue, O. offlcinalit, was formerly 
used in medicine as a diaphoretic and stimulant, and is 
occasionally found in gardens. 
