GAIT
GAIT, noun [This word is probably connected with go or gad.]1. A going; a walk; a march; a way.2. Manner of walking or stepping. Every man has his peculiar gait
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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GAITER
GA'ITER, noun A covering of cloth for the leg.
GALA
GA'LA, noun A gala day is a day of pomp, show or festivity, when persons appear in their best apparel.
GALACTITE
GALAC'TITE, noun [Gr. milk.] A fossil substance resembling the morochthus or French chalk in many respects, but different in color. Immersed or triturated in water, it gives it ...
GALAGE
GALA'GE, noun A wooden shoe.
GALANGA
GALAN'GA, noun A plant, species of the Maranta or Indian Arrow-Root, so called because the root is used to extract the virus communicated by poisoned arrows. This plant has thic...
GALANGAL
GALAN'GAL, noun Zedoary, a species of Kaempferia. It has tuberous, thick, oblong, fleshy roots, crowned with oval close-sitting leaves, by pairs, without footstalks.
GALATIANS
GALA'TIANS, noun Inhabitants of Galatia, in the Lesser Asia, said to be descendants of the Gauls. [See Paul's epistle to them.]
GALAXY
GAL'AXY, noun [Gr. milk; fair.]1. The milky way; that long, white, luminous track which seems to encompass the heavens like a girdle. This luminous appearance is found by the te...
GALBAN
GAL'BANGAL'BANUM, noun [Heb.varied in orthography, from to milk.]The concrete gummy resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, called Ferula Africana, etc., and by Linne, Bubon g...
GALBANUM
GAL'BANUM, n. [Heb.varied in orthography, from to milk.]The concrete gummy resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, called Ferula Africana, &c., and by Linne, Bubon galbanum, w...
GALE
GALE, noun A current of air; a strong wind. The sense of this word is very indefinite. The poets use it in the sense of a moderate breeze of current of air, as a gentle gale A s...
GALEA
GA'LEA, noun [Latin galea a helmet.] A genus of sea hedge-hogs.
GALEAS
GAL'EAS, noun A Venetian ship, large, but low built, and moved both by oars and sails.
GALEATED
GA'LEATED, adjective [Latin galeatus, from galea, a helmet.]1. Covered as with a helmet.2. In botany, having a flower like a helmet, as the monk's-hood.
GALEETO
GALEE'TO, noun A fish of the genus Blennius, of a greenish color, sometimes variegated with blue transverse lines, and like the eel, living many hours after being taken from the...
GALENA
GALE'NA, noun [Gr. tranquillity, so named from its supposed effects in mitigating the violence of disease.] Originally, the name of the theriaca.1. Sulphuret of lead; its common...
GALENIC
GALEN'ICGALEN'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to or containing galena.1. [from Galen, the physician.] Relating to Galen or his principles and method of treating diseases. The galenic...
GALENICAL
GALEN'ICAL, a. Pertaining to or containing galena.1. [from Galen, the physician.] Relating to Galen or his principles and method of treating diseases. The galenic remedies consi...
GALENISM
GA'LENISMGA'LENIST, noun A follower of Galen in the preparation of medicine and modes of treating diseases; opposed to the chimists.
GALERITE
GA'LERITE, noun [Latin galerus, a hat or cap.] A genus of fossil shells.
GALIC
GA'LIC, adjective [from Gael, Gaul, Gallia.] An epithet denoting what belongs to the Gaels, tribes of Celtic origin inhabiting the highlands of Scotland; as the Gaelic language....
GALILEAN
GALILE'AN, noun A native or inhabitant of Galilee, in Judea. Also, one of a sect among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans.
GALIMATIA
GALIMA'TIA, noun Nonsense.
GALIOT
GAL'IOT, noun [Latin galea.]1. A small galley, or sort of brigantine, built for chase. It is moved both by sails and oars, having one mast and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers...
GALIPOT
GAL'IPOT, noun A white resin or resinous juice which flows by incision from the pine tree, especially the maritime pine. galipot encrusts the wounds of fir trees during winter. ...
GALL
GALL, noun [Gr. probably from its color.]1. In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, a yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver. It is glutinous...