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nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

ropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. Locke.

of operations; plan; project. Your murderous game is nearly up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.

Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.

at Paris in 1900; sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field. It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force.

lsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.

A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. What is't that you took up so gingerly Shak.

Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given. Shak.

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.

ong glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

maranth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. -- Globe animalcule, a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. --…

To make sly remarks, or insinuations. Prior.

To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.