gallows
— Noun
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~ an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
gallows bird
— Noun
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~ a person who deserves to be hanged
gallstone
— Noun
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~ a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
Gallup
— Noun
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~ a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border
Gallus
— Noun
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~ common domestic birds and related forms
Gallus gallus
— Noun
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~ a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
gallus
— Noun
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~ elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
Gallus gallus
— Noun
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~ a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl
Galois
— Noun
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~ French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations; was killed in a duel at the age of 21 (1811-1832)
galoot
— Noun
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~ a disreputable or clumsy man
galosh
— Noun
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~ a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
galsworthy
— Noun
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~ English novelist (1867-1933)
galton
— Noun
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~ English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)
Galtonia candicans
— Noun
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~ southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
Galvani
— Noun
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~ Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
galvanic battery
— Noun
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~ battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel
galvanic cell
— Noun
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~ an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy; cannot be recharged
galvanisation
— Noun
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~ stimulation that arouses a person to lively action; "the unexpected news produced a kind of galvanization of the whole team"
galvanisation
— Noun
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~ stimulation with a galvanic current
galvanisation
— Noun
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~ either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting