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"Section F, G and H"

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when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of
silver. Fuller.


2. Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops
behaved with great gallantry.


3. 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.


4. Gallant persons, collectively.
[R.]


Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of
Troy.
Shak.


Syn. -- See Courage, and Heroism.


Gal"late (?; 277), n. [Cf. F.
gallate. See Gall gallnut.] (Chem.) A salt
of gallic acid.


Gal"la*ture (?; 135), n. [From L.
gallus a cock.] (Zoöl.) The tread, treadle,
or chalasa of an egg.


Gal"le*ass (?; 135), n. [F.
galéasse, galéace; cf. It.
galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See
Galley.] (Naut.


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