GAL 
■OAL'LICISM, y. \_!rallidfme, Fr. irom gallkns, Lat.] 
A mode of fpeech peculiar to the French language: fuch 
ns, ha figured m controverfy ; he /if/of this conduft ; ha held 
tlie fame language that another had held before: with 
many other expreHions to be found in the pages of Boling, 
broke.—In Englidi I would have Gallicifms avoided, that 
we may keep to our own language, and not follow the 
French mode in our fpeech. Fdton ov the Clajics. 
GAL'LICO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na- 
pies, and province of Calabria Ultra j five miles i-iorth of 
Reggio. 
GALLIE'NUS (P. Liclnius), Roman emperor, fon 
of Valerian, railed to the purple in 253, at only twenty 
years of age. Sec the article Rome. 
GALLIGAS'KlNS,y. {CaligaGallo-Vafconum. Skinner, 
Large open hofe. Uled in ludicrous language; 
yiy galligajkins, that have long withflood 
The winter’s fury, and encroaching frofls. 
By time fubdu’d, (what will not timefubdue?) 
An horrid chafm difclofe. Philips. 
GAL'LIM, [Heb. one who heaps up.] A town of 
Palefiine, fnppofed to be lituated near the land of Moab. 
I Sam. XXV. 44. Ifaiah x. 30. 
GALLIMA'TIA,y \_galimath:as, Fr.] Nonfenfe jtalk 
without meaning. 
GALLIIVIAU'FRY,y. \_qalimnfrd, Fr.] A hoch-poch, 
or hafn of feveral forts of broken meat 5 a medley. Han- 
mer. —They have made of otir Englilh tongue 2^ gallmau~ 
Jfry, or hodgepodge of all other fpeeches. Spenfer. —Any 
inconfiftent or ridiculous medley.—The painter who, un¬ 
der pretence of diverting the eyes, would fill his pidture 
with fuch varieties as alter the truth of hiftory, would 
make a ridiculous piece of painting, and a mere gallimaufry 
of his work. Dryden. —It is ufed by Shakejptarc ludicroufly 
of a woman: 
Sir John afFefls thy wife. 
—Why, fir, my wife is not young. 
■—He wooes both high and low, both rich and poo»; 
He loves thy gallimaufry friend. Shakefpeare. 
GALLI'NAi, in ornithology, an order of birds. See 
Ornithology. 
GALLINA'CEOUS, adj. [from Lat. a cock.] 
Partaking of the nature of poultry. An appellation 
given to the birds of the order of the gallinse. 
GALLINA'RA, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, 
near the coaft of Genoa : ten miles fouth of Finale. Lat. 
44 2. N. Ion. 25. 50. E. Ferro. 
GALLINA'RIA, in ancient geography, an extenfive 
wood near Cumae in Italy, famous as being the retreat of 
robbers. Juvenal. 
GALLIN A'RI A, y in botany. See Cassia, 
.GALLI'NAS (Las). See Bissagots. 
GALLlNA'ZO,y. in mineralogy, a vitrified lava, the 
fame with \ha lapis ohfidianus oi the ancients. It is of a 
moft beautitul jet black, capable of receiving a very high 
polifli; and ot this fubftance the native Americans and 
Jncas of Peru made their plane, concave, and convex, 
mirrors. 
GAL'LINULE. See Fulica. 
GAL'LIO, a man’s n;ime. AEls xviii. 12, 17. 
. G ALLIOP'OLIS, a port town of the American States, 
in the north-w'eft territory, fitualed on a bend of the Ohio, 
and nearly oppofite to the mouth of the great Knnhaway. 
It contains about one hundred houfes, nearly all inhabi¬ 
ted by French people. It is one hundred and forty miles 
eafiward of Columbia, tln=ee hundred fouth-well of Pittf- 
burg, and five hundred and fifty fouth-weft of Philadel¬ 
phia. Lat. 39. 2. N. Ion. 83. 9. W. 
GAL'LIO'F. SeeGALiOT. 
GALLIP'OLI, a feaport town of European Turkey, 
in the province of Romania, on the fea of Marmora, w ith 
a good harbour; the refidence of a pacha, and the fee of 
a Greek biiliop, fuffragan of Keraclea. It was taken from 
VoL. VIII. Ro. 493. 
GAL Ifi.i 
the Chrirtians in 1357 by Soliman : eighty miles fouth of 
Adrianople, and one hundred and eight vveft-fouth.welt 
of Conftdntinople. Lat.40. 24. N. Ion. 44. 28. E. Ferro. 
GALLIP'OLI, a feaport town of Italy, in the king¬ 
dom of Naples, and province of Otranto, fituated on a 
rock furrounded by the fea, and attached to the land 
only by a bridge ; the fee of a bifiiop, fuffragan of Otranto. 
The environs are planted with olive and cotton-trees, 
which produce the chief articles of its commerce; but 
the inhabitant.s are not well acquainted with the method 
of making the bell oil, their’s being principally purchafed 
for manufadlures : twenty-one miles well of Otranto. 
Lat. 40. 18. N. Ion, 35. 37, E. Ferro. 
GAL'LIPOT, y. Dut. fhining earth. Skinner." 
The true derivation is ixom. gala, Spanifli, finery. Gale, 
or gallipot, is a fine painted pot.] A pot painted and 
glazed, commonly ufed for medicines.—Plato faid his 
mafter Socrates was like the apothecary’s gallipots, that 
had on the outfide apes, owls, and fatyrs; but within, 
precious drugs. Bacon, 
Flere phials in nice difeipline are fet ; 
There gallipots are rang’d in alphabet. Garth. 
GALLIV'AT',y a large row boat, ofabout feventy tons 
burden, -much tiled in the (hallows on the coaft of Hin- 
dooftan from Bombay to Gou ; as they are frequently 
ufed by pirates, they are conftrufted fo as to carry fix or 
eight large cannon, belide petterarocs ; and are furnilhed 
with forty or fifty (tout oars, by which means they are 
rowed at the rate of four miles an hour. They will 
carry from two to three hundred men in each, who fight 
and row by turns. 
GAL'LIUM, in botany. See Galium, 
GAL'LO, an ifland in the province of Popayan, South 
America, in N. lat. 2. 40. Captain Dampier fays it is fitu¬ 
ated in a deep bay, and that off this in.and there is not 
above four or five fathom water ; but at Segnetta, which 
is on the north fide, a velTel may ride in deep water, free 
from any danger. The ifland is high, provided with 
wood and good water, and having good fandy bays, where 
a fliip may be cleaned.'—Alfo, the name of an ifland of 
the South Sea, near thecoall of Peru, which was the fii ft 
place pofTefTed by the Spaniards, when they attempted 
the conqueft: of Peru. 
GALLOGRAi'CIA, a country of Afia Minor, near 
Bithynia and Cappadocia, It was inhabited by a colony 
of Gauls, who aifumed the name oi Gallograci, becaufe a 
number of Greeks had accompanied them in their emi¬ 
gration. Strabo. 
GAL'LON,yi [from gelo.Xovt Lat.] An Englidi meafure 
of capacity, for things both liquid and dry, containing 
two pottles, or four quarts, or eight pints. But thofe 
pints and quarts, and'confequently the gallon itfelf, are 
different, according to the quality of the things mea- 
fured : the wine gallon, for inflance, contains two hun¬ 
dred and thirty-one cubic inches, and holds eight pounds 
five ounces and two thirds, avoirdupois, of pure water; 
the beer and ale gallon contains two hundred and eighty- 
two cubic inches, and holds ten pounds three ounces and 
one fifth of water; and the gallon dry meafure, for grain, 
meal, &c, contains two hundred and fixty-eight cubic 
inches and four fifths, and holds nine pounds eleven ounces 
and a half of water. 
GALLO'NIUS (Anthony), a prieft of the congrega¬ 
tion of the oratory at Rome, who flourilhed in the fix- 
teenth century, was a native of that city, and died there 
in 1605. He was the author of a Hiflory of Virgins, 1591, 
4to. The Lives of certain Martyrs, 1597, 410. The 
Life of St. Philip Neri, founder of the congregation of the 
oratory, in 8vo. and, Apologcticus Liber pro AJferiis in 
Annalibus Ecckfiajlicis Baronianis de Monachalu Sancii Gre~, 
goriie Papa, Clc. 1604, 410. But the moft celebrated-of. 
his works, is a treatife on the different kinds of cruel¬ 
ties iafliiled by the pagans on the martyrs of the primi- 
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