galley 
formerly employed on the Thames in England 
by custom-house officers and press-gangs, and 
for pleasure. 
And each proud galley, as she passed 
To the wild cadence of the Mast, 
Gave wilder minstrelsy. Scott, L. of the L,, i. 15. 
The Jack . . . asked me if we had seen a four-oared 
ijalley going up with the tide ? . . . "You thinks Custum 
'Us, Jack?" said the landlord. " I do," said the Jack. 
Dickens, Great Expectations, liv. 
3. A boat, somewhat larger than a gig, appro- 
priated for the captain's use on a war-ship. 
[Eng.] 4. The cook-room, kitchen, or caboose 
of a merchant ship, man-of-war, or steamer; 
also, the stove or range in the galley. 
To me he [the ship's cook] was unweariedly kind, and 
always glad to see me in the galley , which he kept as clean 
as a new pin ; the dishes hanging up burnished, and his 
parrot in a cage in one corner. 
R. L. Steoenson, Treasure Island, x. 
The place had much of the furniture of one of our pres- 
ent cabooses or galleys. There was a kind of dresser, and 
there were racks for holding dishes, an old brass time- 
piece, ... a couple of wooden bellows, and such matters. 
W. C. Russell, Death Ship, xxiv. 
5. In printing, an oblong shallow tray of brass 
or wood, rarely of zinc, on which the composi- 
tor deposits his type. The galley of wood (now little 
used) is usually Hanged only on the lower side and at the 
Printers' Galley. 
top. Brass galleys, and also some wooden galleys, are 
flanged on both sides, and on these the type can be locked 
up for taking proofs. See proof-galley and slice-galley. 
Standing galley, an immovable inclined plane, lilted 
with cleats, on which type is kept standing. 
galley-archt (gal'i-arch), n. pi. A structure 
for the reception and security of galleys in 
port. Hamersly. Compare galley-house. 
galley-balk (gal'i-bak), n. [Also galleybauk, 
gallybauk, -baick; < galley + talk*-.] A balk in 
the chimney, with a crook, on which to hang 
pots, etc. Brockett. [Prov. Eng.] 
Like the pothooks by means of which pots were hung 
over cottage flres from the galley-hawk, which in those 
days was to be found stretched across every house-place 
chimney. N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 393. 
galley-bird (gal'i-berd), n. A woodpecker. 
galley-cabinet (gal'i-kab"i-net), n. In print- 
ing, a series of shallow pigeonholes with in- 
clined supports, in which galleys of type are 
placed. 
galley-divisiont (gari-di-yizh"on), n. In arith., 
a variety of scratch division (which see, under 
division) : so called because an extended ex- 
ample made a mass of figures somewhat in 
the shape of a galley. 
galley-fire (gal'i-fir), n. The fire in the cook's 
galley on board ship. 
galley-foistt (gal'i-foist), . A barge of state : 
sometimes specifically applied to the barge in 
which the Lord Mayor of London formerly went 
in state to Westminster. 
When the galley-foist is afloat to Westminster. 
B. Jonson, Epiccene, iv. 1. 
This is your brother's will ; and, as I take it, he makes 
no mention of such company as you would draw unto you, 
captains of galley-foists, such as in a clear day have seen 
Calais. Beau, and Fl. , Scornful Lady, i. 2. 
galley-halfpennyt (gal'i-ha'pe-ni), . ; pi. gal- 
ley-halfpence (-pens). [Early mod. E. galyhalf- 
peny ; so called because introduced by Italian 
merchants, commonly called galley^nen: see 
galley-man, 2.] A silver coin of Genoa (and 
perhaps of other Italian cities), once much im- 
ported into England, especially in the fifteenth 
century. The coin had an illegal circulation in England 
as a halfpenny, and seems also to have been called a jane. 
This yere [xii. Hen. VIII.] galy happens was banysshed 
out of England. 
Arnold'* Chronicle (1502-1519), ed. 1811, p. lii. 
Resaved for ij vnces of galy-halfepenys sold this yere vi 
iiij d - Churchwardens' Account Booh (1521-22). 
They had a certaine coyne of silver amongst themselves, 
which were half-pence of Genoa, and were called galley 
halfpence. Stow, Survey of London (ed. 1599), p. 97. 
Venetian merchants who traded to Enprland in their 
Rallies brought their own money, called galley -half pence, 
to trade with, to the injury of our countrymen. They 
were repeatedly forbidden by ... Hen. IV., V., VI., and 
VIII. Dames, Glossary. 
galley-houset (gal'i-hous), . A boat-house. 
These galley -houses are 60 or 60 paces from the river 
eide; and when they bring the gallies into them, there is 
a strong rope brought round the stern of the vessel, and 
both ends stretched along, one on each side. 
Dampier, Voyages, an. 1688. 
2439 
galley-man (gal'i-man), . 1. One who rows 
in or has charge of a galley. 2f. A merchant 
trading with galleys; specifically, an Italian 
merchant who landed wines, etc., from the gal- 
leys at a place called " Galley -key " in Thames 
street, London. 
galley-news (gal'i-nuz), n. Naut., unfounded 
rumor. [Colloq.] 
galley-proof (gal'i-prof ), n. A proof from type 
on a galley. 
galley-punt (gal'i-punt), re. An open boat used 
on the coast of England for communicating 
with ships. 
Right ahead of us was a small galley-punt, flashing 
through the seas under her fragment of reefed canvas. 
W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, xxiii. 
galley-rack (gal'i-rak), n. In printing, a series 
of inclined brackets made to hold galleys, 
galley-rest (gal'i-rest), n. In printing, two 
projecting arms or brackets, inclined, to hold 
a galley ; or a ledge fixed upon a compositor's 
upper case to hold the galley temporarily out 
of his way. 
galley-slave (gal 'i-slav), n. 1. A person con- 
demned for a crime to work at the oar on board 
a galley. This practice no longer exists, but the French 
still use the equivalent term galerien interchangeably with 
forcat (which see). 
Liberty . . . 
Blushed, that effects like these she should produce, 
Worse than the deeds of galley-slaves broke loose. 
Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 327. 
2. A compositor, jocosely regarded as bound 
to the "galley." Moxon, Mech. Exercises, p. 
362. 
galleytilet (gal'i-til), n. Same as gallitile. 
galley-work (gal'i-werk), n. Work in baked 
clay ; pottery m general. 
galley- worm, n. See gaily -worm. 
galley-yarn (gal 'i -yarn), n. Naut., an un- 
founded rumor or tale, such as is often heard 
in ships' galleys. [Colloq.] 
gall-fly (gal'fli), n. [= G. gall-fliege ; as galP 
+ fly*-] An insect which occasions galls on 
plants by puncturing them; especially, a hy- 
menopter of the group Gallicola; or Diplolepa- 
riw, as a cynipid. See gall 3 , and cut under Cy- 
nips. -Guest gall-flies. See InquUina. 
gall-gnat (gal'nat), . The popular name of 
those dipterous insects of the family Cecidomy- 
idce which make galls on plants. Most of them 
belong to the genera Cecidomyia and Diplosia. The larva 
is a minute, legless, usually reddish maggot, which for the 
most part spins a delicate cocoon, oftenest underground, 
before transforming to pupa ; the adult is a very graceful, 
delicate, two- 
winged fly. The 
galls of the sev- 
eral species on 
different plants 
are extremely 
diverse in form 
and character ; 
they are often 
found on annu- 
al plants, which 
is seldom the 
case with those 
of the gall- 
makers of the 
hymenopterous 
family Cynipi- 
rr.ilS1 f nl'-\ Gall-enat (female), a species of Cecidomyia, 
UralllHgal U, natural size; , male antenna, magnified. 
n.pl. [L.,pl. 
ofgallus, cock.] Same as Gallince or Gallinacea. 
Galli 2 , n. Plural of Gallus?. 
galliambi, . Plural of galliambus. 
galliambic (gal-i-am'bik), a. and n. [< L. gal- 
liambicus (LGr. yaUiau/3iic6v, neut., sc. fitrpav, 
meter), < galliambus : see galliambus.] I. a. 
Constituting a galliambus ; consisting of galli- 
ambi : an epithet of a variety of Ionic verse said 
to have first come into use among the Galli or 
priests of the Phrygian Cybele. See galliambus. 
II. ". A galliambus; a verse consisting of 
four Ionics a minore with variations and sub- 
stitutions. 
galliambus (gal-i-am'bus), n. ; pi. galliambi 
(-bi). [< L. galliambms, lit. a song of the Galli, 
so called from its association with the worship 
of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, whose priests, 
the Galli, are said to have used such measures 
in lines of invective or raillery : see GaHws 2 
and iambus."] In pros., a kind of Ionic verse 
consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, 
the last of which wants the final syllable. The 
galliambus is also called metrotacon. 
Galliant (gal'i-an), a. [< L. Gallia, Gaul, + 
-an.] Of or pertaining to Gaul or Prance; 
Gallic; French. [Bare.] 
An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves 
A Gallian girl at home. Shak., Cymbeline, i. 7. 
Gallican 
galliard (gal'yard), a. and >i. [I. a. ME. gay- 
lard, < OF. gaillard, gaillart, F. gaillard = Pr. 
gaillart, gallart, galhart = Sp. gallardo = Pg. 
galhardo = It. gagliardo, gay, lively, brisk, 
merry. Origin uncertain. II. n. < F. gaillard, 
a jolly, gay fellow ; in def. 2, like F. gaillarde, 
< Sp. gallarda, a lively dance, fern, of gallar- 
do, lively. See I.] I. a. Brisk; gay; lively; 
jaunty. [Archaic.] 
Gaylard he was, as goldfynch in the schawe. 
Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 3. 
Er. We either, looking on each other, thrive 
An. Shoot up, grow galliard 
Er. Yes, and more alive ! 
B. Jonson, Love's Welcome at Bolsover. 
A landsman could hardly have worn this garb and shown 
this face, and worn and shown them both with such a 
galliard air, without undergoing stern question before a 
magistrate. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, p. 273. 
These wretched Comparini were once gay 
And galiard, of the modest middle class. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 57. 
II. n. 1. A brisk, lively man; a gay, jaunty 
fellow: as, "Selden is a galliard," Cleveland. 
William Johnstone of Wamphray, called the Galliard, 
was a noted freebooter. . . . The word is still used in 
Scotland, to express an active, gay, dissipated character. 
Scott, quoted in Child's Ballads, VI. 169. 
2. A spirited dance for two dancers only, com- 
mon in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- 
ries : one of the precursors of the minuet. Also 
called romanesca. 
Song with voice or to the Lute, Citheron or Harpe, or 
daunced by measures as the Italian Pauan and galliard 
are at these daies. Putlenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 37. 
And bids you be advis'd, there's nought in France 
That can be with a nimble galliard won. 
SAot.,Hen. V., i. 2. 
If you had but your long stockings on, to be dancing a 
galliard as she comes by. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 3. 
3. Music written for such a dance, or in its 
rhythm, which is triple and emphatic, but not 
rapid. [Obsolete or archaic in all uses.] 
galliardiset, n. [Also galliardize; < OF. gail- 
lardise, < gaillard, gay: see galliard.] Merri- 
ment ; excessive gaiety ; merrymaking. 
I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and 
galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose 
a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, 
and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici. 
galliardnesst (gal'yard-nes), n. Gaiety. 
His rest failed him, his countenance changed, his 
sprightful pleasance and galliardness abated. 
Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 206. 
galliasst, See galleass. 
Gallic 1 (gal'ik), a. [< L. Gallicus, pertaining 
to Gaul or the Gauls, < Gallia, Gaul, Gallus, a 
Gaul : see Gaul 1 .] Of or pertaining to Gaul or 
France. 
The sturdy squire to Gallic masters stoop, 
And drown his lands and manors in a soupe. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 595. 
Not only the presence in France of Alcuin, but the con- 
sequences flowing from his thoughtful foresight, soon 
made themselves be felt among our Gallic neighbours. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, i. 282. 
gallic 2 (gal'ik or gal'ik), a. [= F. gallique, < 
NL. gallicus, < L. galla, gallnut: see gall 3 .] 
Belonging to galls or oak-apples ; derived from 
galls Gallic acid, C 7 H 6 06, an organic acid which 
crystallizes in brilliant prisms, generally of a pale-yellow 
color, without odor and having an acid taste. It exists 
ready-formed in the seeds of the mango, and is a product 
of the decomposition of tannic acid. With ferric salts in 
solution it produces a deep bluish-black precipitate. It 
is used in medicine as an astringent, and is well known as 
an ingredient in ink. See ink. 
Gallican (gal'i-kan), a. and . [< L. Gallicus, 
< Gallia, Gaul: see Gaufl.] I. a. 1. Of or per- 
taining to Gaul or France. 
The Gallican script, which was the parent of the Irish 
uncial. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, II. 176, note. 
2. Specifically, pertaining to the Roman Catho- 
lic Church in France. See Gallicanwm. 
But in regard to the central question, where the Infal- 
libility of the Church lies, the Ultramontanes tell us that 
the Gallican belief, that nothing has the seal of infallibil- 
ity which has not been received by the whole Church, is 
extinct in France. Pusey, Eirenicon, p. 270. 
The Gallican theory [of church government! views the 
Church as a constitutional monarchy, of which the Pope 
is either Jure Divino, or merely Jure Ecclesiastico, the 
responsible head ; invested with legislative and execu- 
tive functions while the supreme representative power of 
the Church, the (Ecumenical Council, is in abeyance; but 
owing implicit obedience to such a Synod when assembled, 
liable to be suspended or deposed by it. and compelled to 
submit to its decisions on pain of the guilt and the conse- 
quences of schism. J. M. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 15. 
Gallican Church, tlie branch of the Roman Catholic 
Church in France, which has enjoyed greater privileges and 
had a more independent development than the branches 
