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ch is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps. The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons. Sci. Amer.

A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.

, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood. Dryden. Purple bird (Zoöl.), the European purple gallinule. See under Gallinule. -- Purple copper ore. (Min.) See Bornite. -- Purple grackle (Zoöl.), the crow blackbird. See under Crow. -- Purple martin. See under Martin. -- Purple sandpiper. See under Sandpiper. -- Purple…

Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid. [Colloq.]

A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).

A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.

rtrait painting, etc., a face turned away so that but one quarter is visible. -- Quarter gallery (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4. -- Quarter gunner (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the gunner. -- Quarter look, a side glance. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Quarter nettings (Naut.), hammock nett…

One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically:

A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.

xote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. "Feats of quixotic gallantry." Prescott.

Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

An order of birds; the Gallinæ.

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

o cause it to sound. -- Yellow rattle (Bot.), a yellow-flowered herb (Rhinanthus Crista- galli), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the inflated calyx.

ntaria), formerly asserted to cure the bite of the rattlesnake. Calling also lion's foot, gall of the earth, and white lettuce. -- Rattlesnake's master (Bot.) (a) A species of Agave (Agave Virginica) growing in the Southern United States. (b) An umbelliferous plant (Eryngium yuccæfolium) with large bristly-fringed lin…

Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

nd above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.

der a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier.