Selden is a galliard by himself.
Cleveland.
Gal"liard, n. [F. gaillarde, cf. Sp. gallarda. See Galliard, a.] A gay,
lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
Never a hall such a galliard did grace.
Sir. W. Scott.
Gal`liard*ise (?), n. [F. gaillardise. See Galliard, a.] Excessive
gayety; merriment. [Obs.]
The mirth and galliardise of company.
Sir. T. Browne.
Gal"liard*ness, n. Gayety. [Obs.] Gayton.
Gal"li*ass (?), n. Same as Galleass.
Gal"lic (?), a. [From Gallium.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing,
gallium.
Gal"lic (277), a. [From Gall the excrescence.] Pertaining to, or
derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
Gallic acid (Chem.), 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,
C6H2(HO)3.CO2H, 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.
Gal"lic (?), a. [L. Gallicus belonging to the Gauls, fr. Galli the
Gauls, Gallia Gaul, now France: cf. F. gallique.] Pertaining to Gaul or
France; Gallican.
Gal"li*can (?), a. [L. Gallicanus: cf. F. gallican.] Of or pertaining
to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.
Gal"li*can, n. An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. Shipley.
Gal"li*can*ism (?), n. 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. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Gal"li*cism (?), n. [F. gallicisme.] A mode of speech peculiar to the
French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.
Gal"li*cize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gallicized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Gallicizing (?).] To conform to the French mode or idiom.
Gal"lied (?), p. p. & a. (Naut.) Worried; flurried; frightened. Ham.
Nav. Encyc.
Gal"li*form (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in
structure.
Gal`li*gas"kins (?), n. pl. [Prob. corrupted fr. It. Grechesco Grecian,
a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have been
afterwards confused with Gascony, as if they came from Gascony.] Loose
hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and
often in a jocose sense.
||Gal`li*ma"ti*a (? or ?), n. Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See
||Galimatias.
Gal`li*mau"fry (?), n.; pl. Gallimaufries (#). [F. galimafrÈe a sort of
ragout or mixed hash of different meats.] 1. A hash of various kinds of
meats, a ragout.
Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat.
King.