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as a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.

escendants. Hamitic languages, the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Somâli Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. Keith Johnson.

A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

ther they bent, and hauled their ships to land. Pope. Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.

An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52

To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]

Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.

tion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious. [Obs.] This most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman. Shak.

or or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc. Imperial bushel, gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc. -- Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire. -- Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor. -- Imperial diet, an assembly…

f ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.

oft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium. Symbol In. Atomic weight, 113.4.

illing the cavities. Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.

A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.

rous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.

A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree. R. H. Dana, Jr.