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or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [A Gallicism]

Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.

o the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes. [Obs.] That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.

Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser.

Flowing with gall. [R.] Johnson.

Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

A gallant. [Obs.] Courting her smoothly like a femalist. Marston.

adv. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.

The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. [Eng.]

Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

on shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene. Dr. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. Swift.

The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.

ood, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus). Barndoor fowl, or Barnyard fowl, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale. Brooke (Eastford). Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.

See Galleass.