Cauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of Cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that are most galled with my folly,
They most must laugh. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by insects of the genus Cynips, chiefly on an oak (Quercus infectoria syn. Quercus Lusitanica) of Western Asia and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are used in the manufacture of that article and for making ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gall insect (Zool.), any insect that produces galls. --
Gall midge (Zool.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls. --
Gall oak, the oak (Quercus infectoria) which yields the galls of commerce. --
Gall of glass, the neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also glass gall and sandiver. Ure.--
Gall wasp. (Zool.) See Gallfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The gall bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. Lam. iii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comedy diverted without gall. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Impudence; brazen assurance. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. --
Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. --
Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. --
Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The town is built in a very gallant place. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our royal, good and gallant ship. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller.

Syn. -- Gallant, Courageous, Brave. Courageous is generic, denoting an inward spirit which rises above fear; brave is more outward, marking a spirit which braves or defies danger; gallant rises still higher, denoting bravery on extraordinary occasions in a spirit of adventure. A courageous man is ready for battle; a brave man courts it; a gallant man dashes into the midst of the conflict. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One fond of paying attention to ladies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the first sense it is by some orthoëpists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gallant persons, collectively. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy. Shak.

Syn. -- See Courage, and Heroism. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The galleasses . . . were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and rowed each by three hundred galley slaves. They consisted of an enormous towering structure at the stern, a castellated structure almost equally massive in front, with seats for the rowers amidships.” Motley.

The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mining) A working drift or level. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whispering gallery. See under Whispering. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. Galleons, galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications of this type. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ F. galée; the same word as E. galley a vessel. ] (Print.) (a) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc. (b) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. “To toil like a galley slave.” Macaulay.--
Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never a hall such a galliard did grace. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]