Index of English words, starting with "ga"

(1) - Galingale (n.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.

(1) - Galiot (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
(2) - Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

(1) - Galipot (n.) 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.

(1) - Gall (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
(2) - Gall (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.
(3) - Gall (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
(4) - Gall (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
(5) - Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
(6) - Gall (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
(7) - Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
(8) - Gall (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance.
(9) - Gall (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
(10) - Gall (n.) The gall bladder.
(11) - Gall (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.