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  • English Word Gallanting Definition of Gallant
  • English Word Gallantly Definition In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
  • English Word Gallantly Definition In a gallant manner.
  • English Word Gallantness Definition The quality of being gallant.
  • English Word Gallantries Definition of Gallantry
  • English Word Gallantry Definition Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.
  • English Word Gallantry Definition Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.
  • English Word Gallantry Definition Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.
  • English Word Gallantry Definition Gallant persons, collectively.
  • English Word Gallate Definition A salt of gallic acid.
  • English Word Gallature Definition The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.
  • English Word Galleass Definition A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.
  • English Word Galled Definition of Gall
  • English Word Gallegan Definition Alt. of Gallego
  • English Word Gallego Definition A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
  • English Word Gallein Definition A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.
  • English Word Galleon Definition A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
  • English Word Galleot Definition See Galiot.
  • English Word Galleries Definition of Gallery
  • English Word Gallery Definition A working drift or level.
  • English Word Gallery Definition A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
  • English Word Gallery Definition A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
  • English Word Gallery Definition A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
  • English Word Gallery Definition Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
  • English Word Gallery Definition A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
  • English Word Galletyle Definition A little tile of glazed earthenware.
  • English Word Galley Definition A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
  • English Word Galley Definition A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  • English Word Galley Definition One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  • English Word Galley Definition The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.