194 G A li 
live church 5 illuflrated by engravings of the inftruments 
of torture made ufe of by them. The firft edition was in 
Italian, entitled Trallato ds gli Injlrumenti di Martirio, &c. 
1591, 4to. with copper-plates executed by the cele¬ 
brated A nthony Tempefta. This work, the author tranf- 
lated into Latin, and publithed at Rome in 1594, 4to, 
with the title, De SanElorum Martyrmri Crvciatibus, &c. 
illiiftrated with wooden prints. Afterwards it under- 
went different impreflions at Paris, Antwerp, See. 
GALLOO'N, ^ \_galon, Fr.] A kind of clofe lace 
made of gold or ftlver, or of filk alone. 
To GALT.OP, V. n. \_galoptr, Fr.' derived by all the 
etymologiffs, zhtr Budaus, from ; but perhaps 
it comes from gant, all, and locpen, to run, Dut. that is, 
to go on full fpeed.] To move forward by leaps, fo that 
all the feet are off the ground at once.— -Gallop lively down 
the weffern hill. Donne. 
In fuch a fhape grim Saturn did reftrain 
His heav’nly limbs, and flow’d with fiich a mane, 
When half furpriz’d, and fearing to be feen, 
The ieacher from his jealous queen. Dryden. 
To ride at the pace which is performed by leaps.—He 
who fair aiid foftly goes fleadily forward, in a courfe 
that points right, will fooner be at his journey’s end than 
he that runs after every one he meets, though he gallop 
all day full fpeed. Locke. —To move very faff : 
The golden fun 
Gallops the zodiac in his glifl’ring coach, Shakefpeare. 
GAL'LOP, y. The motion of a horfe when he runs 
at full fpeed ; in which, making a kind of a leap forwards, 
he lifts both his forelegs very near at the fame time; and 
while thefe are in the air, and juft upon the point of touch¬ 
ing the ground, lie lifts both hishind legs aimofl: at once. 
GALLOPA'DE, y. in the manege, the fliort gallop. 
GALLOPA'VO, f. A name for the peacock. See 
Pa VO. 
GAL'LOPER,y A horfe that gallops.—Mules bred 
in cold countries are much better to ride than horfes for 
their walk and trot ; but they are commonly rough gal¬ 
lopers, though fome of them are very fleet. Mortimer. —A 
man that rides faff, or makes great hafle. [In artillery,}, 
the name of a carriage lerving for the fmalielt guns, and 
having fhafts fo as to be drawn without a limber; 
To GAL'LOW, V. a. [agteljian, to fright, Sax.] To 
terrify ; to fright; 
The wrathful fkies 
Gallow the very wand’rers of the dark, 
.And make them keep their caves. Shakefpeare. 
GAL'LOWAY,y A horfe not more than fourteen 
hands high, much nfed in the north ; probably as coming 
originally frotn Galloway, a Ihire in Scotland. 
GALLOWA.Y, atownfhip of the American States, in 
Gloucefler county. New Jerfey. 
GAL'LOWA’^ (New), a town of Scotland, in the 
county of fCircudbright, near tlie Ken : fifteen miles north 
of Kircudbright. 
GAL'LOWAY (Upper,or Weft), a name fometimes 
given to the county, of Wigton, in Scotland. See WiG- 
TO.NS HIRE. 
GAL'LOWAY (Mull of), a cape of Scotland, onihe 
I'ouih Goaft of the county of Wigton, at the eafl: of the 
entrance into Glenliice-bay. Lat. 54.44. N. Ion. i. 43. 
Y/. Edinburgh. 
GAL'LOWGLASSES, f. Foot-foldiers—It is worn of 
footmen under their Ihirtsof mail, which footmen the 
Irifh call gallozuglajfes t the which name doth difeover 
them alfo to be ancient Englift) ; for gallogla figaufies an 
Englifti fervitor or yeoman. And he being fo armed in a 
long (hirt of mail, down to the calf of his leg, with a long 
broad ax in his hand, was then pedes gravis armaturce ; and' 
was infleadof the footman that, now weareih the coxfletj. 
GAL 
before the corflet was ufed, or aimofl invented. Spenfer.. 
[Hanmer, otherwife than Spenfer.'] Soldiers among the 
wild Irilh, who ferve on horfeback : 
A puiffantand mighty pow’r ■ 
Of gallowglajfes and flout kernes, 
Is marching hitherward in proud array. Shakefpeare. 
GAL'LOWS.y [It is ufed by fome in the fingular; 
but by more only in the plural, or fometimes it has an¬ 
other plural, gallowfes. Golgo, Gothic 5 gealga, Sax. galge^ 
Dut. which (bme derive horn gabalus furca,l.zt. others 
from n33, Heb. high; others from gallu, Welfli, power: 
but it is probably perived, like gallow, to fright, from 
agxlpan, Sax. the gallows being the great object of 
legal terror.] A beam laid over two polls, on which 
malefactors are hanged.—I would that we were all of 
one mind, and one mind good ; O, there were defolatiba 
of gaolers deed, gallowfes. Cymbeline. 
J propliefied if a.gallows were on land, 
Tliis fellow' could not drown. Shakefpeare... 
A wretch that deferves the gallows 
Cupid hath been five thoufand years a boy. 
— .\y, and a Ihrewd unhappy too. Shakefpeare. 
G AL'LOWS-FREE, adj, Exem'pt by defliny from be^ 
ing hanged: 
Let him he gallows-free by my confent. 
And notl'.ing fuft'er, (ince he nothing meant. Dryden. 
GAL'LOWS-MAKER,/'. One that makes a gallows.-C-, 
What is he that builds Itronger than the mafon, thelliip- 
wright and the carpenter ?, The gallows.maker. Skakefp. 
G AL'LOWTREE, y. The tree of terror; the tree o£ 
execution : 
He hung their conquer’d arms, for more defame, 
On gallowtrees, in honotir of his deareft dame. Spenfer. 
GALL'S FAD, a tow'll of Sweden, in the province o£ 
Well: Gothland : fifty miles eafl of Gothenburg. 
GALLUC'Cl (Joiin Paiil)., a learned Italian aflrono- 
ir.cr, fellow of the academy at Venice, who contrived aa 
inflriiment Vi/liicli v/as found ferviceable in obferving the 
celeflial phenomena before the invention of the lelefcope. 
He was the author of fevcral aflronomical works, and. 
fome on phyfic, which difplay a conliderable acquaint¬ 
ance with the (late of fcience as it exifted in his time, find, 
a commendable ardour for its improvement; but not un- 
ni’xed with the fanciful notions wlfich then prevailed con¬ 
cerning the influence of the heavenly bodies, in their dif¬ 
ferent politions, on the human frame and conflitution. 
The principal of them are : x. Theatrum Mundi & Tempo- 
ris, 1589, folio. 2. De Th.male Erigendo, Parte Fortune;, 
Divjione Zodiaci, Dignitatibus Planetarvm & Temparitms aeT 
Medicandum accommodatis, See. 1584, folio. 3. Speculum 
Uranicum, 1593, folio. 4. Cielefium Corporum, & Rerum a a. 
ipfs pendenltum, ExpUcatio, 160^, folio. 5. Della Fabrica: 
del nitcvo Orologio univerfale, e Ufa di nuovo Slromento per fare 
gli Orologifolari, 1390, 4!o. 6. Della Fabrka & Ufodi di— 
vafi Stromeli diAf ronomia & Cofnographia, 1597, 410. 
GAL'LUS, [from yaTvXo?, Gr. cattrated, becaufe this, 
bird was dedicated to Cybele, whofe prlefls were all 
eunuchs; or from a helmet, which its comb in 
fome manner reprelents.] A cock. It is alfo a term for: 
an eunuch. 
GAL'LUS (Corneliiis)i a Roman poet, born in the 
year before Chrift 69, at Forum Julii, which may be ei¬ 
ther Frejus in Provence, or Friuli in Italy. Of his life 
few incidents are known. One of the nioft interefting cir- 
cumftances in it was his intimacy with Virgil, whom he 
was probably the meansof introducing to Maecenas. That 
poet ha» inferibed his tenth eclogue with iJie name of 
Gallus, whofe defertion by his miflrefs Lycoris is thefub-. 
jedl of the compofition, Gallus himfelf wrote four bocks 
of elegies to the honour of this miflrefs, which raifed him. 
to a high rank among the poets of this dafs^ and appear 
to. 
