<B>gallery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-leries,</B> verb, <B>-leried,</B> <B>-lerying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a long, narrow room or passage, often with windows along one side; hall. <BR> <I>Ex. The armor is displayed in a long gallery outside the bedrooms.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a long, narrow platform or open passage projecting from the wall of a building. <DD><B> 2. </B>a balcony looking down into a large hall or room, especially in a church, theater, or hall, with seats or room for part of the audience. <BR> <I>Ex. Visitors to the Senate sit in the gallery and are not permitted on the floor when it is in session.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the highest balcony in a theater. It contains the cheapest seats. <BR> <I>Ex. We had to pay $3 apiece for gallery seats (Time).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the people who sit there. <BR> <I>Ex. The gallery is a critical judge of acting.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a group of people watching or listening; spectators; audience. <DD><B> 6. </B>a covered walk or porch. (SYN) loggia. <DD><B> 7a. </B>(Mining.) an underground passage; level or drift. <DD><B> b. </B>a covered underground passage in a fortification. <DD><B> 8. </B>a passageway made or dug by an animal. <DD><B> 9a. </B>a building or room used to show collections of pictures, statues, or other works of art. <BR> <I>Ex. The pictures were hung on the walls of the gallery.</I> (SYN) museum. <DD><B> b. </B>a commercial company or firm which specializes in the sale of works of art. <DD><B> 10. </B>a collection of works of art. <DD><B> 11. </B>a room or building used for a particular purpose, such as taking photographs or practicing shooting. <DD><B> 12. </B>a balcony or platform at the stern or quarters of older ships. <DD><B> 13. </B>a jewelry setting with perforated sides. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to provide with a gallery; arrange like a gallery. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make an underground passage. <BR><I>expr. <B>play to the gallery,</B> </I>to try to get the praise or favor of the common people by doing or saying what will please them. <BR> <I>Ex. We hope that ... advocates will be courteous to judges, to opposing counsel, and to witnesses, and not play to the gallery (Law Times).</I> adj. <B>galleryless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="galleryforest">
<B>gallery forest,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a forest that grows alongside a body of water without spreading inland. Gallery forests may be seen in small groves and along streams on the Great Plains of the United States and in central South America and Africa. </DL>
<A NAME="gallerygoer">
<B>gallerygoer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who visits art galleries. </DL>
<A NAME="galleryhit">
<B>gallery hit,</B> <B>play,</B> or <B>shot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a showy or flashy play in a game, intended to gain applause from the spectators. </DL>
<A NAME="galleryite">
<B>galleryite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person who sits in the gallery of a theater, stadium, etc. </DL>
<A NAME="galleta">
<B>galleta, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a coarse, dry grass used for hay in the southwestern United States. </DL>
<A NAME="galley">
<B>galley, </B>noun, pl. <B>-leys.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a long, narrow ship of former times having oars and sails, used in the Mediterranean in ancient and medieval times. Galleys were often rowed by slaves, prisoners of war, or convicts. <DD><B> 2. </B>a large rowboat, especially one for the captain's use on a British warship. <DD><B> 3. </B>the kitchen of a ship or airplane. <BR> <I>Ex. The gleaming galley has most of the comforts of modern living, including ... a garbage grinder that should frustrate gulls and porpoises (Time).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Printing.) <DD><B> a. </B>a long, narrow tray for holding type that has been set. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=galley proof.</B> <DD><B> 5. </B>a state or pleasure barge. </DL>
<A NAME="galleyproof">
<B>galley proof,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Printing.) a proof printed from type in a galley. Galley proofs are usually made on long, narrow sheets with wide margins for marking corrections. </DL>
<A NAME="galleyslave">
<B>galley slave,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person forced or condemned to row a galley. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a drudge. </DL>
<A NAME="galleywest">
<B>galley-west, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) into utter confusion or ruin. <BR> <I>Ex. A Justice Department official said last week that if the Government lost the Peters case, "it would knock the whole [security] program galley-west" (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gallfly">
<B>gallfly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-flies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an insect that deposits its eggs in plants, causing galls to form; gall midge, gall moth, or gall wasp. </DL>
<A NAME="gallia">
<B>Gallia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Latin name of Gaul, an ancient country in western Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="galliard">
<B>galliard, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a lively dance in triple time for two people, common in the 1500's and 1600's. <DD><B> 2. </B>the music for it. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) a sturdy, hardy, or valiant man. <DD><I>adj. </I> (Archaic.) <B>1. </B>lively; gay. <DD><B> 2. </B>sturdy; hardy; valiant. </DL>
<B>gallic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) <DD><B> 1. </B>of gallium. <DD><B> 2. </B>containing gallium, especially with a valence of three. </DL>
<A NAME="gallic">
<B>Gallic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with Gaul or its people. <BR> <I>Ex. Caesar's Gallic Wars.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>French. <BR> <I>Ex. Gallic wit.</I> adv. <B>Gallically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="gallicacid">
<B>gallic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline, organic acid, obtained especially from galls on plants, used in making ink and dyes and in tanning. </DL>
<A NAME="gallican">
<B>Gallican, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>Gallic; French. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the Roman Catholic Church in France, especially a party among French Roman Catholics who wanted to restrict papal authority in favor of the authority of general councils. <DD><I>noun </I> a member of the Gallican party in the French Roman Catholic Church. </DL>
<A NAME="gallicanism">
<B>Gallicanism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the spirit or policy of the Gallicans with respect to papal authority over the Roman Catholic Church in France. </DL>
<A NAME="gallice">
<B>Gallice, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in French. <DD><B> 2. </B>in the French style. </DL>
<A NAME="gallicism">
<B>Gallicism</B> or <B>gallicism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a French idiom or expression. </DL>
<A NAME="gallicize">
<B>Gallicize</B> or <B>gallicize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-cized,</B> <B>-cizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make or become French in form, pronunciation, habits, customs, or character. </DL>
<A NAME="galligaskins">
<B>galligaskins, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of loose hose or breeches worn in the 1500's and 1600's. <DD><B> 2. </B>loose breeches. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British Dialect.) leggings; gaiters. </DL>
<A NAME="gallimaufry">
<B>gallimaufry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mixture of unlike things; confused jumble; hodgepodge. <BR> <I>Ex. So now they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches (Edmund Spenser).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a meat stew or hash; ragout. </DL>
<B>gallinaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or belonging to an order of birds that nest on the ground and fly only short distances. Chickens, turkeys, pheasants, grouse, and partridges are gallinaceous birds. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with or like domestic fowl. </DL>
<A NAME="galling">
<B>galling</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that galls; chafing; irritating. <BR> <I>Ex. As stubborn steers ... joined reluctant to the galling yoke (Alexander Pope).</I> (SYN) annoying, vexatious. adv. <B>gallingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="galling">
<B>galling</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the wearing off of a surface when two metals, pieces of leather, or other material rub against each other. </DL>
<A NAME="gallinipper">
<B>gallinipper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an insect that bites or stings, especially a large mosquito. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various similar insects that do not bite or sting, such as a crane fly. </DL>
<A NAME="gallinsect">
<B>gall insect,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any insect that causes galls, such as a gallfly. </DL>
<A NAME="gallinule">
<B>gallinule, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain long-toed, wading marsh birds related to the rails and coots, such as the purple gallinule. </DL>
<A NAME="gallio">
<B>Gallio, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an official who refuses to take action upon matters outside of his immediate jurisdiction (in the Bible, Acts 18:12-17). <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. Unhappily, Scotland was ruled, not by pious Josiahs, but by careless Gallios (Macaulay).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="galliot">
<B>galliot, </B>noun. =galiot.</DL>
<A NAME="gallipot">
<B>gallipot</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small pot or jar of glazed earthenware used especially by druggists to hold medicine, salve, or the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>a druggist. </DL>
<B>gallium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a grayish-white chemical element with a melting point slightly above room temperature but a high boiling point. Gallium is used in thermometers. It is a rare, shining metal occurring as a minute part of bauxite and other minerals, and is similar to aluminum in its chemical properties. </DL>
<A NAME="galliumarsenide">
<B>gallium arsenide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline compound of gallium and arsenic, used as a semiconducting device in tunnel diodes and lasers. </DL>
<A NAME="gallivant">
<B>gallivant, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to go about seeking pleasure; gad about. <BR> <I>Ex. You were out all day yesterday, and gallivanting somewhere (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to flirt. Also, <B>galavant.</B> </DL>
