Chapter Galliardise to Galvanography of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. To perform the dance called gallopade.

Galloper
(Gal"lop*er) n.

1. One who, or that which, gallops.

2. (Mil.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow.

Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, — formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

Gallopin
(Gal"lo*pin) n.[F. galopin. See Gallop, v. i.] An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Galloping
(Gal"lop*ing) a. Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.

Gallotannic
(Gal`lo*tan"nic) a. [Gall nutgall + tannic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.

Gallotannic acid. See Tannic acid, under Tannic.

Gallow
(Gal"low) v. t. [Cf. AS. agelwan to stupefy.] To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.

Galloway
(Gal"lo*way) n. (Zoöl.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; — called also garran, and garron.

Gallowglass
(Gal"low*glass`) n. [Ir. galloglach. Cf. Gillie.] A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

Gallows
(Gal"lows) n. sing.; pl. Gallowses (#) or Gallows. [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. galgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows.]

1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows.

Esther vii. 10.

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.

Shak.

O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!

Shak.

2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] Shak.

3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.

4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.]

Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.] — Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; — called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. — Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. — Gallows, or Gallow tree, the gallows.

At length him nailéd on a gallow tree.

Spenser.

Gallstone
(Gall"stone`) n. A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.