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<hw>Gal"liard*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Gayety.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Gayton.</i>

<h1>Galliass</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*ass</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Galleass</er>.</def>

<h1>Gallic</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"lic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Gallium</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.</def>

<h1>Gallic</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"lic</hw> <tt>(277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Gall</er> the excrescence.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.</def>

<cs><col>Gallic acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>an organic acid, very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, being found in the free state in galls, tea, etc., and produced artificially. It is a white, crystalline substance, <chform>C6H2(HO)3.CO2H</chform>, with an astringent taste, and is a strong reducing agent, as employed in photography. It is usually prepared from tannin, and both give a dark color with iron salts, forming tannate and gallate of iron, which are the essential ingredients of common black ink.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gallic</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"lic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Gallicus</ets> belonging to the Gauls, fr. <ets>Galli</ets> the Gauls, <ets>Gallia</ets> Gaul, now France: cf. F. <ets>gallique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.</def>

<h1>Gallican</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*can</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Gallicanus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>gallican</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; <as>as, the <ex>Gallican</ex> church or clergy</as>.</def>

<h1>Gallican</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*can</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.</def>

<i>Shipley.</i>

<h1>Gallicanism</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*can*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church.</def>

<i>Schaff-Herzog Encyc.</i>

<h1>Gallicism</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*cism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gallicisme</ets>.]</ety> <def>A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.</def>

<h1>Gallicize</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*cize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gallicized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gallicizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To conform to the French mode or idiom.</def>

<h1>Gallied</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"lied</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Worried; flurried; frightened.</def>

<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i>

<h1>Galliform</h1> <Xpage=609>

<hw>Gal"li*form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Like the Gallinae (or <spn>Galliformes</spn>) in structure.</def>

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