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Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] Harvey.

int-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

l countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons.

The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] Wyclif.

See Agalloch.

; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally. He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

ng an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

Glass gall or sandiver.

urope. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8

rvile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A long, arched building or gallery.

body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott.

A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.

To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. [Obs.] That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak.

To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.