gallon 
2f. A measure of land. A gallon of land is sup- 
posed to have been the amount of land proper 
to sow a gallon of grain in. 
galloon (ga-16n'), . [= D. Dan. Sw. galon = 
G. galone, < OF. galon, F. galon, < Sp. galon = 
Pg. galao = It. gallone, galloon, aug. of gala, 
finery, ornament : see gala 1 , gallant.} If. Ori- 
ginally, worsted lace, especially a closely woven 
lace like a narrow ribbon or tape for binding, 
A jacket edged with blue galloon. 
D'Urfey, Wit and Mirth. 
In livry short, galloone on cape, 
With cloak-bag mounting high as nape. 
Davenant, Long Vacation in London. 
2. In modern use : (a) A fabric similar to the 
above, of wool, silk, tinsel, cotton, or a combi- 
nation of any of these. (6) A kind of gold or 
silver lace with a continuous even edge on each 
side, used on uniforms, liveries, etc. 
We played a bout or two for a hat that was edged with 
silver galloon. Swift, Mem. of P. P. 
gallooned (ga-lond'), a. [< galloon + -e<J2.] 
Furnished or adorned with galloon. 
Those enormous habiliments . . . were . . . slashed 
and galooned. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, i. 7. 
galloon-gallantt, n. A gallant in galloon: a 
contemptuous name. 
Thou galloon-gallant, and Mammon you 
That build on golden mountains, thou money-maggot! 
Fletcher, Sea Voyage, i. 3. 
gallop (gal'up), v. [Formerly also gallup, galop; 
< ME. galopen (= D. yalopperen = MHG. ga- 
lopieren, G. galoppiren = Dan. galoppere = Sw. 
galopperd), < OF. galoper, F. galoper (= Pr. ga- 
laupar = Sp. Pg. galopar = It. galoppare, after 
F.), a var., with the usual change of initial w to 
g (gu), of OF. waloper, > ME. walopen, E. wallop, 
gallop, lit. boil, the sound made by a horse gal- 
loping being appar. likened to the boiling of a 
pot : see wallop, of which gallup is a doublet. 
The usual deriv. from "Goth, gahlaupan, to 
leap," is absurd; a Goth, 'gahlaupan does not 
exist, and the rare and poet. AS. form gehledpan 
is transitive.] I. intrans. 1. To move or run 
by leaps, as a horse ; run with steady and more 
or less rapid springs. See the noun. 
Knyghtes wollith on huntyng ride ; 
The deor galopith l>y wodis side. 
King AliiauiuLer, 1. 480 (Weber's Metr. Rom.). 
2. To ride a horse that is running; ride at a 
running pace. 
She and her gentlewomen to wayte vpon her galoped 
through the towne, where the people might here the 
treading of their horsse, but they saw her not. 
Grafton, Edward the Confessor, an. 1043. 
He gallop'd up 
To join them, glancing like a dragon-fly. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
3. To move very fast ; scamper. 
Master Bliftl now, with his blood running from his nose, 
and the tears galloping after from bis eyes, appeared before 
his uncle and the tremendous Thwackum. 
Fielding, Tom Jones, iii. 4. 
Boys who . . . gallop through one of the ancients with 
the assistance of a translation can have but a very slight 
acquaintance either with the author or his language. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 6. 
Such superficial ideas . . . he may collect in gallopping 
over it. Locke, Conduct of Understanding, 24. 
II. trans. To cause to gallop : as, he galloped 
his horse all the way. 
Never gallop Pegasus to death. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, I. i. 14. 
gallop (gal'up), . [= D. galop = G. galopp = 
Dan. galop = Sw. galopp, < OF. and F. galop = 
Sp. Pg. galope = It. galoppo; from the verb.] 
1. A leaping or springing gait or movement of 
horses (or other quadrupeds), in which the two 
fore feet are lifted from the ground in succes- 
sion, and then the two hind feet in the same 
succession. The term is commonly used to denote the 
movement intermediate in speed and action between the 
canter and the run, in which during the stride two, three, 
or all the feet are off the ground at the same instant. (See 
horse.) The details of the succession of motions and the 
system of the steps vary with the different species of quad- 
rupeds. 
That trot became a gallop soon, 
In spite of curb and rein. 
Cowper, John Gilpin. 
2. A ride at a gallop ; the act of riding an ani- 
mal on the gallop. 3. A kind of dance. See 
galop Canterbury gallop (so named from Canter- 
bury: the allusion is said to be to the ambling pace at 
which pilgrims rode to Canterbury, but this is probably 
fanciful], a moderate gallop of a horse: commonly abbre- 
viated to canter (which see). Also called aubin. False 
gallopt, in the manege, apparently, an awkward pace. 
Beat. What pace is this that thy tongue keeps ? 
Marg. Not & false gallop. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 4. 
This is the very false gallop of verses. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
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gallopade (gal-o-pad'), . [Also (in def. 2) 
galopade, galoppo.de; = D. galopade = Dan. 
galoppade = Sw. galojyad, < F. galopade (= Pg. 
galopada = It. gdloppata), < galoper, gallop : see 
H/illn/i, r.] 1. In the manege, a sidelong or cur- 
veting kind of gallop. 2. A sprightly kind of 
dance, or the music adapted to it. See galop. 
The two favourite dances were the Valse and the Galop 
the sprightly 'Hilnppade, as it was called. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 117. 
gallopade (gal-o-pad'), v. i. ; pret. and pp. gal- 
lopaaed, ppr. gallopading. [< gallopade, w.] To 
gallop; move about briskly ; perform the dance 
called a gallopade. 
The shock-head willows two and two 
By rivers gallopaded. Tennyson, Amphion. 
gallopavo (gal-o-pa'vo), n. [NL., < L. gallus, 
cock, + pavo, peacock.] A name of the turkey, 
now the technical specific name of the bird, 
Mili-ogris gallopavo. Also written gallipavo. 
galloper (gal'up-er), n. 1. One who or that 
whicL gallops. 
Mules bred in cold countries . . . are commonly rough 
gallopers. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
That most intrepid and enduring of all gallopers, Sir 
Francis Head. Hints on Horsemanship. 
2. In artillery, a carriage on which small guns 
are conveyed, fitted with shafts so as to be drawn 
without limbers. [Eng.] 3. A galloper-gun. 
They likewise sent another detachment, ... on which 
Sir John [Cope] advanced two Gallopers, which presently 
dislodged them. Trial of Sir John Cope, p. 139. 
4. In dyeing, a rolling-frame. 
Qalloperdix (gal-o-per'diks), n. [NL. (E. Blyth, 
1844), < L. gallus, cock, + perdix, partridge.] A 
genus of gallinaceous birds, the hill-partridges, 
Galloptrdix lunuiatus. 
of the subfamily Perdicince, of India and Ceylon, 
related to the jungle-fowl, but having no comb 
or wattles. The sexes are dissimilar in plumage, but 
both have the shanks spurred. There are three species of 
these hill-partridges, G. spadiceus and G. lunulatus of In- 
dia, and the Ceylonese G. zeylonensis. 
galloper-gun (gal'up-er-gun), . A small gun 
conveyed on a galloper. See galloper, 2. [Eng.] 
gallopin (gal'o-pin), . [< OF. galopin, also 
icalopin, later gallopin, F. galopin (= Sp. galo- 
pin = Pg. galopini = It. galoppino ; ML. galopi- 
nus), a scullion (cf. Icel. galpin, mod. gatapin, 
a merry fellow, < E.) ; cf. It. galuppo, a lackey, 
footboy (Florio); lit. a runner or errand-boy, 
< F. galoper, etc., gallop : see gallop, v. ] A ser- 
vant for the kitchen; a cook's boy; a scullion. 
[Obsolete or Scotch.] 
You, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord 
High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to 
prepare our court. Scott, Abbot, xxi. 
galloping (gal'up-ing), w. [Verbal n. of gal- 
lop, r.] The action of a horse that gallops ; a 
running at a gallop. 
I did hear 
The galloping of horse ; who was 't came by? 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
Know, Pegasus has got a bridle, . . . 
With which he now is so commanded, 
His days of galloping are ended, 
Unless I with the spur do prick him. 
Cotton, The Great Frost. 
galloping (gal'up-ing), p. a. [Ppr. of gallop, 
.] Proceeding at a gallop ; hence, figurative- 
ly, advancing rapidly; making rapid progress: 
as, a galloping consumption (that is, a consump- 
tion that proceeds rapidly to a fatal termina- 
tion). 
The doctor says it's a galloping consumption. . . . He 
says it's the quickest case he ever knew. 
Habberton, The Barton Experiment, p. 75. 
gallotannic (gal-o-tan'ik), a. [< gallic 2 + 
tannic.] Derived from galls and consisting of 
tannin: used only in the following phrase. 
Gallotannic acid, tanniu acid derived from nutgalls. 
gallows 
gallotin(gal'o-tin), n. [< gallic* + -ot-in.] See 
giillntin. 
gallou-berry (gal'9-ber"i), . [< gallou, cur- 
lew, + E. feerri/1.] The curlewberry, Empetrum 
nigrum : so called from its furnishing much of 
the food of curlews in the fall, 
gallou-bird (gal'o-berd), n. [< gallou, curlew, 
+ E. 6<>rfl.] A curlew; especially, the Eskimo 
curlew, Numenius borealis. 
gallowt (gal'6), r. t. [Also dial, gaily (see gal- 
ly' A )', < ME.*(/atoice, in comp. begaloioen, fright- 
en, < AS. a-galwian, d-gelwian, astonish.] To 
frighten or terrify. 
The wrathful skies 
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, 
And make them keep their caves. 
Shak., Lear, iii. 2. 
galloway (gal'o-wa), . One of a breed of 
horses of small size (under fifteen hands high), 
first raised in Galloway in Scotland, character- 
ized by great spirit and endurance. 
And on his match as much the Western horseman lays 
As the rank-riding Scots upon their Galloways. 
Drayfon, Polyolbion, iii. 28. 
A Galloway, although strictly speaking a distinct breed, 
is commonly understood to be a horse not over 14 hands. 
... A pony must be less than 52 inches (13 hands) from 
the ground to the top of the withers, else he is a Galloway. 
Encyc. Brit., XII. 191. 
gallowglass, galloglass (gal'o-glas), n. [< Ir. 
galloglack, a servant, a heavy-armed soldier, < 
gall, a stranger, foreigner, particularly an Eng- 
lishman, + oglach, a youth, servant, vassal, 
knave, soldier, kern, < 017, young (= E. young, 
q. v.), + term. -lack. The Irish armed their 
gallowglasses after the model of the English 
military settlers.] A soldier or armed retainer 
of a chief in ancient Ireland, the Hebrides, or 
other Gaelic countries. 
The merciless Macdonwald . . . from the western isles 
Of kernes and gallowglasses is supplied. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 2. 
In October the wild kerns and gallowglasses rose, in no 
mood for sparing the house of Pindarua. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 152. 
gallow-grass (gal'o-gras), n. Hemp, as being 
made into halters for the gallows. [Old slang.] 
gallows (gal'oz or gal'us), n. [< ME. galows, 
galowes, galoiis, galewes, galwes, rarely or never 
in sing, galwe, < AS. galga, gealga (used in both 
sing, and pi.), a gallows, gibbet, cross, = OS. 
galgo = OFries. galga = D. galg = MLG. galge 
= OHG. galgo, MHG. galge, G. galgen = Icel. 
gdlgi = Sw. Dan. galge, a gallows, gibbet, = 
Goth, galga, cross. In the older languages 
(Goth., AS., OHG., etc.) the word was used to 
denote the cross on which Christ suffered.] 1. 
A wooden frame on which criminals are exe- 
cuted by hanging, usually consisting of two 
posts and a cross-beam on the top, or of a sin- 
gle post with a projecting arm, from which the 
criminal is suspended by a rope fastened about 
his neck: a plural used as a singular, and hav- 
ing the double plural gallowses. 
Mony toke he (hat tyme and to toune led, 
And hongit horn in hast vpon high galowes. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 12885. 
I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good : 
O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses. 
Shak., Cymbellne, v. 4. 
2. A similar contrivance for suspending ob- 
jects. 
They exercise themselves with various pastimes ; bnt 
none more in use, and more barbarous, then the swing- 
ing up and downe, as boyes doe in bell-ropes; for which 
there be gallowses. Sandys, Travailes, p. 44. 
3. Naut.,sa,metLsgallcnes-l>itts. 4. In coal-min- 
ing, a set of timbers consisting of two upright 
pieces or props and a bar or crown-tree laid 
across their tops so as to support the roof in 
a level or in any other excavation. [North. 
Eng.] 5. In printing, a low trestle attached 
to old forms of hand printing-presses, to sustain 
the tympan. 6. A central core formed of sev- 
eral cornstalks interlaced diagonally (while un- 
cut) to serve as a stool or support for cut maize 
which is placed about it in forming a shock. 
[U. 8.] 7. pi. A pair of braces for supporting 
the trousers. Also galluses. [Colloq.J 
A pair of worn jean trousers covered his lower limbs, 
and were held in place by knit " fjalluse*," which crossed 
the back of his cotton shirt exactly in the middle and dis- 
appeared over his shoulders in well-defined grooves. 
The Century, XXXVI. 895. 
8f. A wretch who deserves to be hanged; a 
gallows-bird. [Rare.] 
Ron. He [Cupid] hath been five thousand years a boy. 
Kath. Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. 
Shale., L. L. L., v. -J. 
