gall-duct 
bladder or to the intestine: ;i cysti' 1 , hepatic, 
or choledockous duct, of which there may be 
one or several. In man there arc three main gall-ducts: 
a hepatic, from the liver, and a cystic, to the gall-bladder, 
these two uniting to form a third, the common biliary duct 
(ductuscomniuuischoleduchus), \vhich discharges hilcinto 
the duodenum or first part of the intestine. Also called 
gall-pipe and hilr-ilin-t. 
galleasst, galliasst (gal'e-as, -i-as), . [Also 
i/alliiix, f/nlfas; = D. gateau, guljaa = G. galeasse 
= Dan. S\v. galcas, < OP. galeace, </<i liner, ijnl- 
leasse, etc., in mod. spelling galeace, galleasse = 
Sp. galcazu = Pg. galeaca, < It. yaleazza, aug. 
of galea, a galley: see galley.] A large galley 
formerly used in the Mediterranean, carrying 
generally three masts and perhaps twenty guns, 
and having castellated structures fore and aft, 
and seats amidships for the rowers, who were 
galley-slaves, and numbered sometimes more 
than three hundred, there being as many as 
thirty-two oars on a side, each worked by sev- 
eral men. 
Dallies, 
Great galliasses, fly-boats, pinnaces, 
Amounting to the number of an hundred 
And thirty tight, tall saile. 
Heywood, If You Know not Me, ii. 
galled (gald), p. a. [Pp. of galft, v.] 1. Fret- 
ted or excoriated ; abraded : as, a galled back. 
Let the galled jade wince ; our withers are unwrung. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 
2. Characterized by galls. See ffflM 2 , n. 
Gallegan, (ga-le'gan), n. [< Sp.'Gallego, a na- 
tive of Galicia, < L. Gallaxus, pi. Galueci, Cal- 
Iteci, Callaici, a people of western Hispania. 
See Galician 1 .] A native or an inhabitant of 
Galicia in Spain ; a Galician. The Gallegans are a 
distinct race, speak a peculiar form of Spanish, and mi- 
grate annually in great numbers to work for a time in 
other parts of Spain. 
Gallego (Sp. pron. ga-lya'go), . [Sp.] Same 
as Gallegan. 
gallein(gal'e-in),. [<. gall-ic? + -e-in.] Acoal- 
tar color used in dyeing, prepared by heating 
together phthalic auhydrid and pyrogallic acid, 
adding carbonate of soda, and precipitating 
with an acid. It produces tolerably fast shades 
of purple and violet on cotton, wool, and silk. 
gallemalfryt, . See gallimaufry. 
galleon (gal'e-on), n. [= F. gallon,, < Sp. galeon 
= Pg. galcSo, an armed ship of burden, = It. ga- 
leone, aug. of Sp. Pg. It. galea, ML. galea, a gal- 
ley : see galley. ] A large unwieldy ship, usually 
having three or four decks and carrying guns, 
of a kind formerly used by the Spaniards, espe- 
cially as treasure-ships, in their commerce with 
South America. 
The forte here could not secure the .Spanish galleoia from 
Admiral Blake, tho' they hall'd in close under the main fort. 
Dampier, Voyages, an. 1099. 
The harbors of Spanish America were at the same time 
visited by their [English] privateers in pursuit of the rich 
yalleom of Spain. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 68. 
The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy 
vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built 
up at stum and stern, like castles. Motley. 
Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built gal- 
leons came. Tennyson, The Kevenge. 
galleott, n. See galiot. 
Siller (gal'er), . One who or that which galls. 
alleria, . See Galeria. 
galleriant, . [< F. galerien, < galere, a galley: 
see galley.] A galley-slave. Davies. 
The prerogative of a private ccntinel above a slave lies 
only in the name, and the advantage, if any, stands for 
the gallerian. Gentleman Instructed, p. 183. 
galleried (gal 'e -rid), a. [< gallery + -ed%.] 
Provided or fitted with a gallery ; disposed like 
a gallery. 
One of the galleried fronts of an old London inn. 
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. 
Qalleriida, Galleridae, . pi. See GalerUdce. 
gallery (gal'e-ri), . ; pi. galleries (-riz). [Early 
mod. E. galery, galarye; = D. galerij = G. gal- 
lerie = Dan. Sw. galleri, < OF. galerie, gallerie, 
F. galerie = Sp. galeria = Pg. galeria = It. gal- 
leria (ML. galeria, galleria), a long portico, a 
gallery; orig., perhaps, a place of amusement, 
a special use of OF. galerie, gallerie, mirth, glee, 
sport, amusement, < OF. gale, show, mirth, fes- 
tivity,etc.: see gallant and gala 1 .] 1. An apart- 
ment of much greater length than breadth, serv- 
ing as a passage of communication between 
the different rooms of a building, or used for the 
reception of pictures, statues, armor, etc.; a 
corridor; a passage. 
But loe Polites, one of Priam's sons, 
Escaped from the slaughter of Pyrrhus, 
Comes fleeing through the wepons of his foes, 
Searching all wounded the long galleries 
And the voyd courtes. Surrey, MneiA, ii. 
L>438 
For this world anil the next world are n..t t.> the pun 
in heart two houses, but two rooms, a <iutl- >-;i to pa*.- 
through, and a lodging to rest in, in the same house, which 
are both under the one roof, Christ Jesus. 
Donne, Sermons, x. 
Amongst other things lie saw Galleries full of 1:1. rite 
Images. Pure/tax, Pilgrimage, p. 59. 
Hence 2. A room or building for the exhibi- 
tion of works of art, or, by extension, a collec- 
tion of such works for exhibition. 3. A plat- 
form projecting from the interior walls of a 
building, supported by piers, pillars, brackets, 
or consoles, and overlooking the main floor, as 
in a church, theater, or public library. 
After dyner, he deperted out of the hall, and went up 
into a galarye, of twenty-four stayres of heyght. 
Benwrs, tr. of Froissart's Chron., IV. xxxiii. 
He sat down amidst the loud clapping of hands, in 
which the Lords below the bar and the strangers in the 
gallery joined. Macaulay, Historical Essays, IV. 32ti. 
These galleries were also useful as adding to the accom- 
modation of the church, as people were able thence to 
see the ceremo- 
nies performed be- 
low, and to hear 
the mass and mu- 
sic as well as from 
the floor of the 
church. 
J.Fergusson. Hist. 
[Arch., I. 570. 
4. A narrow 
passage, open 
at least on one 
side, and often 
treated as a 
decorative fea- 
ture, on the ex- 
terior or inte- 
rior walls of an 
edifice, enter- 
ing into the 
architectural 
design and at 
the same time 
affording com- 
munication be- 
tween different 
parts, Or facili- Galleries of the west front of the Cathedral 
fififl fm 1 VAATI f Amiens, i3th century, illustrating treat- 
rOl Keep- ment 0[ B .,Ucries as a decorative feature. 
lllg the build- ( From Viollet-le-Duc's " Diet, de I 1 Architec- 
ing in repair. a " f -'" 1 
The name is sometimes given, by extension, to similar fea- 
tures intended only for ornament, and not atfording a 
means of communication. Such galleries are usual in me- 
dieval churches. 
Round the roofs (ran] a gilded gallery 
That lent broad verge to distant lands. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
5. The persons occupying the gallery at a thea- 
ter. 
While all its throats the gallery extends, 
And all the thunder of the pit ascends ! 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 32ti. 
The galleries would certainly lose much of their venera- 
tion for the theatrical kings, queens, and nobles, if they 
were to see them behind the scenes, unbedizeued. 
I'. Knox, Spirit of Despotism, $ 23. 
6t. An ornamental walk or inclosure in a gar- 
den, sometimes formed by trees or shrubs. 
These kinde of tarrasses or little galleries of pleasure, 
Suetonius calletll Meniana. Coryat, Crudities, I. 205. 
7. An underground passage. Specifically (a) A 
horizontal or inclined subterranean passage, whether cut 
in the soil or built in masonry, connecting ditferent parts 
of a fortification, or a fortification with a mine or series 
of mines. In military engineering a gallery is an under- 
ground passage whose dimensions exceed 3 by 4 feet; 
when of less size, it is called a branch or branch gallery. 
See scarp gallery (under scarp) and counterscarp gaflertl 
(under counterscarp). (6) In mining, a level or drift. [Rare- 
ly used except in translating the French word galerie.] 
8. In zool., a long narrow excavation of any 
kind made by an animal, as the underground 
passages dug by a mole, the boring of an insect, 
etc. 9. Naut., a frame like a balcony project- 
ing from the stern and quarters of a ship. The 
part at the stern is called the stern-gallery, that 
at the quarters the quarter-gallery. 10. In fur- 
niture-making, a small ornamental parapet or 
railing running along the edge of the top of a 
table, shelf of a cabinet, or the like, intended 
to prevent objects from being pushed off. in 
decorated furniture of the eighteenth century the galleries 
were an important feature. They were commonly of gilt 
bronze. Gallery hit, shot, etc., a showy or super- 
ficially brilliant play in a game, such as to win applause 
from the spectators. [Colloq.] Whispering-gallery, 
a gallery or dome in which the sound of words uttered in 
a low voice or whisper is communicated to a greater dis- 
tance than under any ordinary circumstances. Thus, in 
an elliptical chamber, if a person standing in one of the 
foci speak in a whisper he will be heard distinctly by a 
person standing in the other focus, although the same 
sound would not be audible at the same distance under 
any other circumstances or at any other place in the chain- 
galley 
lier. The rea-M'ii is that tile sounds produced in one of the 
fool of such a chamber strike upon the wall all runinl. ;iinl. 
from the nature of the ellipse, are all reflected to the other 
focus. 
gallery-furnace (gal'e-ri-fer'nas), . A pe- 
culiar kind of furnace formerly used in the 
district of Zweibrucken in Germany for redu- 
cing mercurial ores. It consisted of a chamber long 
eii. ,ngh to hold from 30 to 50 cucurbits, arranged in two 
panillel rows, which were heated by a nre made on a grate 
below. Each cucurbit had a small separate condenser 
made of earthenware. 
gallery-picture (gare-ri-pik"tur), . A paint- 
ing too large for the walls of an ordinary room ; 
hence, a picture fitted to be displayed only in 
a gallery. 
gallery-road (gal'e-ri-rod), . An artificial 
roadway constructed on piles; or in the form 
of inclined terraces on the side of a hill, so as 
to admit of a gradual descent, or in any analo- 
gous way. 
galless (gal'les), a. [< galtf + -less.] With- 
out gall; good-natured; meek; gentle. [Rare.] 
A dove, a meek and galless creature. 
Whole Duty of Man, 19. 
gallet (gal'et), n. [Also written galet; < F. 
galet, a pebble, collectively shingle, dim. of OF. 
gal, a stone. Cf. F. cailloti, a flinty pebble, and 
see calliard.] A fragment of stone broken off 
by a mason's chisel; a spall. 
gallet (gal'et), v. t. ; pret. and pp. galletetl, gal- 
letted, ppr. gnlleling, gallettiiig. [More common- 
ly in the corrupted formgarret; < gallet, .] To 
insert small pieces of stone into the joints of, 
as coarse masonry : as, to gallet a wall. Parker. 
Also garret. 
galleta-grass (ga-la'ta-gras), n. [Sp. gallrtti, 
hard-tack.] A very coarse, hard bunch-grass 
of the southwestern United States. 
galleting, galletting (gal'et-ing), . [Verbal n. 
of gallet t r.] The act of inserting chips of stone 
or flint into the joints of rubblework while the 
mortar is wet. Also called garretiiig, garretting. 
galletylet, " See gallitile. 
galley (gal'i), .; pi. galleys, formerly also gal- 
lies (-iz). [Formerly also gaily, early mod. E. 
fialty, galy; < ME. galeye, galay, etc., = D. G. 
Dan. galei = Sw. galeja, < OF. galee, galie, F. 
galee = Pr. galea, galeia, gale = Sp. Pg. (obs.) 
galea = It. galea, < ML. galea, galeia, MGr. 70- 
/iea, yakala, a galley; ulterior origin unknown. 
Hence ult. F. galere = Sp. Pg. It. galera, a galley, 
and E. galleass, galiot.] 1. A sea-going vessel 
propelled by oars, or using both oars and sails. 
The earliest ships of all nations were of this class, and 
were at first confined chiefly to coasting or to the naviga- 
tion of narrow seas. The war-galley of the Greeks origi- 
nally had a single mast carrying one square sail amidships, 
and later two masts, hut depended primarily upon its oars, 
ranged in a single line on each side, and each handled by 
one rower. It was rated according to the who!e number 
of these. The principal sizes were the triaconter, of 
thirty oars, and the penteconter, of fifty. Ships of this form 
continued to be used as vessels of burden, but were early 
superseded for war by galleys rated according to the num- 
ber of hanks of oars or ranks of rowers, as the bireine 
(a two-banked vessel), trireme, gvadrireme, etc. Greater 
numbers of hanks are mentioned, up to forty banks of oars 
in a vessel of enormous size built for Ptolemy Philopator 
of Egypt. How these numerous banks of oars were ar- 
ranged is not definitely known ; it is probable that not more 
than three could have been placed one above another. The 
first recorded Roman fleet consisted wholly of triremes, and 
this waa always the most common armament. The ancient 
naval vessels were long, sharp, and narrow in model, like a 
modem steamer, were capable of great speed, and carried 
large crews. Full decks, or several decks, were in time 
substituted for the primitive half-deck, or the short deeks 
at the stem and stern ; and rams, towers, and other means 
of offense and defense were added. Galleys continued in 
use in the Mediterranean and other seas till late in the 
seventeenth century, ordinary ones in later times having 
from five to twenty-five oars on a side in a single row, 
each oar worked by several men, with two or three masts 
and triangular sails ; and indeed they may be considered 
as not yet entirely obsolete, being represented by the 
feluccas and boats of similar model on the Mediterranean 
and neighboring seas. Larger vessels were called galleass- 
es. (See galleass.) The labor of rowing was from an early 
date assigned to mercenaries, and afterward to slaves and 
prisoners of war ; and in some countries, especially France, 
nearly all criminals were condemned to service on the gal- 
leys of the state, and were hence called galley-slaves. See 
trireme. 
Whan the Saisnes [Saxons] sangh the Galeiies, the! were 
full gladde, and ronne in who that myght first in the gret- 
test haste. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 597. 
It is made a gaily matter to carry a knife whose poynt 
is not broken oil. Eeetirn, Diary, Oct. 17, 1644. 
The Dromones, or light gallies, of the Byzantine empire 
were content with two tiers of oars. 
Giobim, Decline and Fall, liii. 
Kins Ferdinand's gallfti* were spread with rich carpets 
and awnings of yellow and scarlet, and every sailor in the 
fleet exhibited the same gaudy-colored livery of the royal 
house of Aragon. Prexcott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 20. 
2. A state barge ; a large boat, especially one 
used in display; in a special use, an open boat 
