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] To conform to the French
mode or idiom.


Gal"lied (?), p. p. & a. (Naut.)
Worried; flurried; frightened. Ham. Nav.
Encyc.


Gal"li*form (?), a. (Zoöl.)
Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in
structure.


Gal`li*gas"kins (?), n. pl. [Prob.
corrupted fr. It. Grechesco Grecian, a name which seems to
have been given in Venice, and to have been afterwards confused with
Gascony, as if they came from Gascony.] Loose hose or
breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a
jocose sense.


||Gal`li*ma"ti*a (? or ?), n.
Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias.


Gal`li*mau"fry (?), n.; pl.
Gallimaufries (#). [F. galimafrée a
sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.] 1.
A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.


Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries,
forced meat.
King.


2. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.


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