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Gal*lant" (?; 277), a. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

Gal*lant" (?; 277), n. 1. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay, fashionable man; a young blood. Shak.

2. One fond of paying attention to ladies.

3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison.

In the first sense it is by some orthoÎpists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.

Gal*lant" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gallanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gallanting.] 1. To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.

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

Gal*lant"ly (?), adv. In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.

Gal"lant*ly (?), adv. In a gallant manner.

Gal"lant*ness (?), n. The quality of being gallant.

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Gal"lant*ry (?), n.; pl. Gallantries (#). [F. galanterie.] 1. Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic]

Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver.

Fuller.

2. Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.

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.

4. Gallant persons, collectively. [R.]

Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy.

Shak.

Syn. -- See Courage, and Heroism.

Gal"late (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. gallate. See Gall gallnut.] (Chem.) A salt of gallic acid.

Gal"la*ture (?; 135), n. [From L. gallus a cock.] (Zoˆl.) The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.

Gal"le*ass (?; 135), n. [F. galÈasse, galÈace; cf. It. galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See Galley.] (Naut.) 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. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

"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.

{ Gal*le"gan (gl*l"gan), Gal*le"go (gl*l"g or g*ly"g), } n. [Sp. Gallego.] A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.

Gal"le*Ôn (?), n. [Pyrogallol + phthaleÔn.] (Chem.) A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.

Gal"le*on (?), n. [Sp. galeon, cf. F. galion; fr. LL. galeo, galio. See Galley.] (Naut.) 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.

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