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Galileo
- noun - Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)
Galipot
- - An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.
Gallant
- adjective - a man who attends or escorts a woman
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- being attentive to women like an ideal knight
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"
- lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
- unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
Gallego
- - A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
Gallein
- - A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.
Galleon
- noun - a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries
Gallery
- noun - a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
Galleys
- noun - (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars
- a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading
- the area for food preparation on a ship
- the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner