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3. A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.

The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale.

Brooke (Eastford).

Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.

Gale (?), v. i. (Naut.) To sale, or sail fast.

Gale, n. [OE. gal. See Gale wind.] A song or story. [Obs.] Toone.

Gale, v. i. [AS. galan. See 1st Gale.] To sing. [Obs.] "Can he cry and gale." Court of Love.

Gale, n. [AS. gagel, akin to D. gagel.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

Gale, n. [Cf. Gabel.] The payment of a rent or annuity. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

Gale day, the day on which rent or interest is due.

||Ga"le*a (?), n. [L., a helmet.] 1. (Bot.) The upper lip or ||helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

2. (Surg.) A kind of bandage for the head.

3. (Pathol.) Headache extending all over the head.

4. (Paleon.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.

5. (Zoˆl.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.

Gal"e*as (?), n. See Galleass.

{ Ga"le*ate (?), Ga"le*a`ted (?), } a. [L. galeatus, p. p. of galeare helmet.] 1. Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

2. (Biol.) Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.

||Ga"le*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Galeus, name of one genus, fr. Gr. &?; ||a kind of shark.] (Zoˆl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which ||includes the sharks.

Ga*le"na (?), n.[L. galena lead ore, dross that remains after melting lead: cf. F. galËne sulphide of lead ore, antidote to poison, stillness of the sea, calm, tranquility.]

1. (Med.) A remedy or antidote for poison; theriaca. [Obs.] Parr.

2. (Min.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.

False galena. See Blende.

Ga*len"ic (?), Ga*len"ic*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to, or containing, galena.

Ga*len"ic, Ga*len"ic*al, a. [From Galen, the physician.] Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. Dunglison.

Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

Ga"len*ism (?), n. The doctrines of Galen.