3. A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part
of the leg.
Ga*loot" (?), n. A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.
[Slang, U. S.]
Gal"op (?), n. [F.] (Mus.) A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also,
the music to the dance.
Ga*lore" (?), n. & a. [Scot. gelore, gilore, galore, fr. Gael. gu leÚr,
enough; gu- to, also an adverbial prefix + leÚr, leÚir, enough; or fr.
Ir. goleor, the same word.] Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
Ga*loshe" (?), n. Same as Galoche.
Galpe (?), v. i. To gape,; to yawn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gal"some (?), a. [Gall bitterness + some.] Angry; malignant. [Obs.] Bp.
Morton.
Galt (?), n. [See Gault.] Same as Gault.
Gal*van"ic (?), a. [From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna,
on account of his connection (about 1780) with the discovery of
dynamical or current electricity: cf. F. galvanique.] Of or pertaining
to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing
electrical currents.
Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical
currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now
usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or
circle. (Elec.) See under Circuit. -- Galvanic pile (Elec.), the
voltaic pile. See under Voltaic.
Gal"va*nism (?), n. [From Galvani: cf. F. galvanisme. See Galvanic.]
(Physics) (a) Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain
liquids and metals; dynamical electricity. (b) The branch of physical
science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and
effects of electrical currents.
The words galvanism and galvanic, formerly in very general use, are now
rarely employed. For the latter, voltaic, from the name of Volta, is
commonly used.
Gal"va*nist (?), n. One versed in galvanism.
Gal"va*niza`tion (?), n. The act of process of galvanizing.
Gal"va*nize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Galvanized (?); p pr. & vb. n.
Galvanizing (?).] [Cf. F. galvaniser.] 1. To affect with galvanism; to
subject to the action of electrical currents.