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I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

rtaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or circle. (Elec.) Se…

science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.

An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. Differential galvanometer. See under Differental, a. -- Sine galvanometer, Cosine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer in which the sine, cosine, or tangent respectively,…

The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.

An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.

hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals. Gambrel roof (Arch.), a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. -- Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. -- Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game…

Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

y reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.…

To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.

The black currant; also, the wild plum. [Prov. Eng.]

A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.

al, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.

ock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

A geodetic line or curve.