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Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

Same as Galactometer.

An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

See Galoche. Spenser.

A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

ungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.