Index of English words, starting with "ga"

(1) - Gallant (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.
(2) - Gallant (v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
(3) - Gallant (n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
(4) - Gallant (n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies.
(5) - Gallant (n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
(6) - Gallant (a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
(7) - Gallant (a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
(8) - Gallant (a.) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

(1) - Gallantly (adv.) In a gallant manner.
(2) - Gallantly (adv.) In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.

(1) - Gallantry (n.) Gallant persons, collectively.
(2) - Gallantry (n.) Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.
(3) - Gallantry (n.) Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.
(4) - Gallantry (n.) Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.

(1) - Galleon (n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.

(1) - Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
(2) - Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
(3) - Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
(4) - Gallery (a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
(5) - Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
(6) - Gallery (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.