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from the ealtern languages, and fevcral explanations of The mariial Moors, in refin’d, ' 
medals and other matters of antiquity in the Mem. of Invent new arts to make their charmers kind. Granville. 
the Academy of Infcriptioiis, Mem. de Trevoiix, and . . 
other colleftions. Vicious love; lewdnefs; debauchery.—It looks like a 
GAL'LAND (Auguflus), a French lawyer and hif- fort of compounding betw'een virtue and vice, as if a wo- 
torian of the feventeenth century. He was extremely man were allowed to be vicious, provided flie be not a 
well verfed in legal and hiftorical antiquities, as he jtroved profligtite ; as if there were a certain point wb.ere gallanhy 
by feveral learned writings. One of the njoft celebrated cods, and infamy begins. Swift.. 
of his works was that which he compofed againtt the al- _ G A LLAR A'TO, a town oi Italy, in the duchy of Mi- 
lodial rights pretended by fome of the provinces of writ- ^^o^: twenty miles wefi-north-wefl of Milan, 
ten law, to which he added the laws given to tlie Albi- GAL'LARDON, a town of France, in the department 
genfes by Simon de Montfort, This was firlf publilhed the Eure and Loire, and duel place of a canton, in the 
at Paris in 1620, and he gave a mueh augmented edition diftrict of Chartres : four leagues weft of Dourdun, and 
in 1637. He likewife publifhed in 1637, ieveral treatifes 
relative to the ancient banners of France. He is fuppofed 
to have died about 1644. His Ton, in 1648, publilhed 
ills Memoirs for the hiftory of Navarre and f landers. A 
Difeours all Roi, concerning the origin, prggrefs, See. 
of the city of Rochelle, publiflied anonymoully in 1628 
and 1629, is aferibed to this author. Many genealogies 
of noble families, drawn up by Ins hand, are preferved in 
different libraries. 
GAL'LANT, adj. [_galant, Fr. from gala, filie drefs, 
Span. 3 Gay; well drefted ; ftiowy; fplendid; maguificenf. 
—A place of broad rivers, wherein (hall go no galley w'ith 
oars, neither ftiall .gallant Ihips pafs thereby. If. xxxiii. 21. 
The gay, the wife, the gallant, and the grave, 
Subdu’d alike, all but one pallicn luive. Waller. 
Brave; high fpirited; darings magnanimous.—Fare thee 
well, thou art a gallant 'jonxXi. Shakefpearc. — A gallant 
man, vvhofe thoughts fly at the higheft game, requires no 
further infight. Digby. —Fine ; noble ; fpacious : 
There are no tricks in plain and fimple faith ; 
But hollow men, like horfes hot at hand, 
flake gallant fhewand promife of their mettle. ShaLf. 
Courtly with rel'pedt to ladies : 
When firft the foul of love is fent abroad. 
The gay troops begin 
In gallant thought to plume their painted wings. Tillotf. 
GAL'LANT,/i A gay, fprightly, airy, fplendid, man. 
he gallants and lafty youths of Naples came and of¬ 
fered themfelves unto VafHus. Knolks, 
The gallants, to proteft the lady’s right, 
Theirfaalcliioiis brandifli’d at the grifly fpright. Drydeii, 
One who careft’es women to debauch them.—Th.ough 
worn to pieces with age, he ftiews himfelf a yowng gallant. 
Skakefpeare .—She left the good man at home, and brought 
away her gallant. Addfon .—A wooer; one who courts a 
woman for marriage. In the two latter fenfes it has 
Commonly the accent on the laft fyllable, as in the French. 
GAL'LANT, a town of Hungary, three miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Serat. 
TbGAL'LANTISE, v. a, \_gdlantfer, Fr.] To court, to 
play the gallant. 
GAL'LANTLY, adv. Gaily; fplendidly. Bravely; 
nobly ; generoufly.—You have not dealt fo gallantly with 
us as we did with you in a parallel cafe : laft year a paper 
was brought here from England, which we ordered to be 
burnt by the common hangman. Swift. 
GAL'LANTRY, f. \_galanterie, Fr.] Splendour of 
appearance; (liow; magnificence; glittering grandeur; 
often tat ibus finery ; 
Make the fea fhine with gallantry., and all 
The Englifli youth flock to their admiral. Waller. 
Bravery; noblenefs; generofity.—The eminence of your 
condition, and the gallanby of your principles, will invite 
gentlemen to the ufeful and ennobling ftudy of nature. 
Glanville —A number of gallants.—Hedtor, Deiphobus, 
and all xhe gallantry ol'liroY> I would have arirr’d to-day. 
.Courtfnip ; refined addrefs to women: 
three nortli-eaft of Chartres. 
G ALL'BRUNN, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : feven miles north-weft of Brugg. 
GAI.LE', in Latin Gallceus (Servatius), a learned 
Dutch divine, paftor of the Walloon church at Haarlem, 
died at Campen in 1709. He was the editor,of a beautiful 
and excellent edition of LaBantius, cum nptis variorum, 
printed by Backius, 1660, 8vo. and tlie author of Dijfcr- 
(ationes de SylnlUs, earumque Oraculis, 168S, 4(0. and of 
a nevv iinpreliion, with enlargements and corredfions, of 
O'pfopteus’s edition of the Sybillioe oracles, entitled i^'- 
billina Oracida, ex veteribus Codicihiis cmendata £? rfit'iita, 
&c. acccdunt Oracuta Magka Zbrvajlris, Jovis, A'poilinis, (Sc.- 
Gr. (3 Lat. cum notis variorum, ( 3 c. 1689, 4to. 
GAL'LE, or Ponte Galle, a .fcaport tann and fort 
of the ifland of Ceylon, fituated on the fouth-weft coaft, 
about iialf a league in circumference within the walls ; 
defended by baliions towards the land ; on the fide to¬ 
wards the fea are banks and rocks; the fort refs is on a 
tongue of land : the bay is expofed only to the vvefterly 
winds ; but is faid not to be large, nor convenienr, and 
the entrance dangerous on account of' the rocks. Tl;e 
Dutch took it from tiie Portuguefe in 1640. The air is 
liealthy, and the heat of the climate moderated by the 
land and fea breezes : ninety-eight miles fouth of Candy. 
Lat. 6. N. Ion. 80. 20. E. Greenwich. 
GAL'LEASS. See Galeasse. 
G ALLE'GO, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon;, 
eighteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Salamanca. 
GAL'LEGQ, a river of Spain, which rifes in tlic Py¬ 
renees, and runs into the-Ebro, oppofite Saragolfa. 
G.VL'LEGOS, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon : twenty-four miles fouth of Salamanca. 
G AL'LEMBERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Carniola : tliirty miles eaft of Laubach. 
GAL'LENBU'LONj.a town of fhe iftand of Madagaf- 
car. Lat. 17. 20. S. Ion. 71. 50. E. of Ferro. 
GAL'LENEK, a tov/n of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carniola : fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Stein. 
GAL'LENSTAIN, a town of Germany, in the duci'.y- 
of Stiria ; three miles weft of ReilBing. 
G AL’LEON,/. [galcon, Fr.] A lofty or high built flii[> 
of great capacity, peculiar to Spain, and employed in ih.e 
commerce of the Indies. The Spaniards fend annually 
two fleets ; the one for Mexico, which they call the Jlota ; 
and the other for Peru, which they call the galleons. 
They are appointed to fail from Cadiz in January, and 
arrive at Porto Bello about the middle of April ; where,> 
the fair being over, they take on-bo.ard the plate, and 
reach Havannah about the middle of June ; wiiere t,hcy 
are joined by the fiota, in order to return to Spain witii 
the greater fafety. 
GALL'EOT. SeeGALiOT. 
GAL'LERYjy. \_galerie, Fr. derived by Du Cange from 
galeria, low Latin, a tine room.] A kind of wailk al.ong 
the floor of a houfe, into which the doors of tlie apart¬ 
ments open ; in general, any building of which the lengt!> 
much exceeds the breadth.—Nor is the (Ivape of our ca¬ 
thedrals proper for our pre.aching auditories, but rather 
the figure of aa amphitheatre, with gralleries. gradually 
overlooking 
