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Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. Pope.

A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson.

In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.

Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.

The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]

Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

in cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid. Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.

That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. Circumstantial evidence, Conclusiv…

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.

Too put to death illegally; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.

hat is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.