3. (Chem.)
Defn: An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
4. Etym: [F. galée; the same word as E. galley a vessel.] (Print.) (a) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc. (b) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof. Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.— Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.
GALLEY-BIRD
Gal"ley-bird`, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker.
[Prov. Eng.]
GALLEY-WORM Gal"ley-worm`, n. Etym: [Prob. so called because the numerous legs along the sides move rhythmically like the oars of a galley.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.
GALLFLY
Gall"fly`, n.; pl. Gallflies (. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.
GALLIAMBIC
Gal`li*am"bic, a. Etym: [L. galliambus a song used by the priests of
Cybele; Gallus (a name applied to these priests) + iambus] (Pros.)