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Gallop
() To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
Gallop
() To ride a horse at a gallop.
Gallop
() Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
Gallop
() To cause to gallop.
Gallop
() A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
Gallopade
() I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.
Gallopade
() A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.
Gallopaded
() of Gallopade
Gallopading
() of Gallopade
Gallopade
() To gallop, as on horseback.
Gallopade
() To perform the dance called gallopade.
Galloper
() One who, or that which, gallops.
Galloper
() A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.
Gallopin
() An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.
Galloping
() Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
Gallotannic
() Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.
Gallow
() To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.
Galloway
() A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.
Gallowglass
() A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward /
Gallowses
() of Gallows
Gallows
() of Gallows
Gallows
() A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.
Gallows
() A wretch who deserves the gallows.
Gallows
() The rest for the tympan when raised.
Gallows
() A pair of suspenders or braces.
Gallstone
() A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
Gally
() To frighten; to worry.
Gally
() Like gall; bitter as gall.
Gally
() See Galley, n., 4.
Gallygaskins
() See Galligaskins.
Galoche
() Alt. of Galoshe
Galoshe
() A clog or patten.
Galoshe
() Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.
Galoshe
() A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
Galoot
() A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.
Galop
() A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.
Galore
() Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
Galoshe
() Same as Galoche.
Galpe
() To gape,; to yawn.
Galsome
() Angry; malignant.
Galt
() Same as Gault.
Galvanic
() Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
Galvanism
() Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
Galvanism
() The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
Galvanist
() One versed in galvanism.
Galvanization
() The act of process of galvanizing.
Galvanized
() of Galvanize
Galvanizing
() of Galvanize
Galvanize
() To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
Galvanize
() To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.