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21gal|le|in — «GAL ee uhn», noun. brownish red or greenish yellow crystals obtained by heating pyrogallol and phthalic anhydride, used as a dye or as an indicator. Formula: C20H12O7 ╂[< gal(lic acid) + (phtha)lein] …
22gal|le|on — «GAL ee uhn, GAL yuhn», noun. 1. a large, high, fighting ship, usually with three or four decks and square sails, first used by the Italians in the 1400 s as an armed merchant ship, and later developed by Henry VIII into a strictly fighting ship …
23gal — slang pronunciation of GIRL (Cf. girl), 1795, execrated as a Cockney vulgarism. Gal Friday is 1940, in reference to Robinson Crusoe …
24gal|ax|i|id — «gal AK see ihd», adjective. of or belonging to a family of scaleless, salmonlike fishes of New Zealand, Australia, and South America. ╂[< New Latin Galaxiidae the family name < Greek galaxías a kind of fish, probably the lamprey] …
25gal|i|ma|ti|as — «GAL uh MAY shee uhs, MAT ee », noun. confused or meaningless talk; gibberish; nonsense. ╂[< Middle French galimatias; origin uncertain] …
26gal|i|ot — «GAL ee uht», noun. 1. a small, fast galley moved with oars and sails that was used until the end of the 1700 s. 2. a heavy, single masted, Dutch cargo or fishing boat. 3. Obsolete. an ancient Roman galley. Also, galliot. ╂[< Old French… …
27Gal|la — «GAL uh», noun. 1. plural las or la. a member of one of the Hamitic tribes of Ethiopia and other countries of northeast Africa. 2. their language …
28Gal|li|a — «GAL ee uh», noun. Latin name of Gaul, an ancient country in western Europe …
29Gal|li|ce — «GAL uh see», adverb. 1. in French. 2. in the French style. ╂[< Medieval Latin Gallice in French < Latin, in the Gaulish (tongue)] …
30gal|li|ot — «GAL ee uht», noun. = galiot. (Cf. ↑galiot) …
