Crossword clues for gallic
gallic
- French lass left in charge
- French government with a Liberal left in charge
- French girl left in charge
- French girl left Channel Islands, heading north
- French General Assembly liberals in charge
- French annoyance over islands to the north
- From France
- Of the French
- Like some ancient Celts
- Child's cuisine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallic \Gal"lic\, a. [From Gallium.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
Gallic \Gal"lic\ (277), a. [From Gall the excrescence.] Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
Gallic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, being found in the free state in galls, tea, etc., and produced artificially. It is a white, crystalline substance, C6H2(HO)3.CO2H, with an astringent taste, and is a strong reducing agent, as employed in photography. It is usually prepared from tannin, and both give a dark color with iron salts, forming tannate and gallate of iron, which are the essential ingredients of common black ink.
Gallic \Gal"lic\, a. [L. Gallicus belonging to the Gauls, fr. Galli the Gauls, Gallia Gaul, now France: cf. F. gallique.] Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "of or pertaining to the French," from Latin Gallicus "pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls," from Latin Gallia "Gaul" and Gallus "a Gaul" from a native Celtic name (see Gaelic), though some connect the word with prehistoric West Germanic *walkhoz "foreigners" (see Welsh). Originally used in English rhetorically or mockingly for "French." The cock as a symbol of France is based on the pun of Gallus "a Gaul" and Latin gallus "cock" (see gallinaceous). Earlier was Gallican (1590s).\n\nIt means not simply 'French,' but 'characteristically', 'delightfully', 'distressingly', or 'amusingly' 'French' ... not 'of France', but 'of the typical Frenchman'.
[Fowler]
\nAs "of or pertaining to the ancient Gauls" from 1796.Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or derived from galls. 2 (context chemistry English) Of or pertaining to gallic acid or its derivatives. 3 (context chemistry English) Relating to, or containing, gallium.
WordNet
Wikipedia
'Gallic' is an adjective that may describe:
- Gaul (Latin: Gallia), an ancient region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France and parts of surrounding countries but also to the Gauls, the Celtic people of this region, and by extension to the French people
- France, the French people, and their customs
- a gall, a formation induced by a parasite in plants, hence the name gallic acid, for a phenolic compound found in these formations
- Gallium, a chemical element
'Gallic' is also a proper noun naming the following ships:
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, a paddle wheel steamship
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, a cargo steamship
Usage examples of "gallic".
They relate the history of the first seven years of the Gallic War in seven books, and the history of the Civil War down to the commencement of the Alexandrine in three books.
Rome of a deputation of Allobroges, Gallic tribesmen from far up the Rhodanus in Further Gaul, no one could have predicted.
Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.
The Capuan turned to the Gallic chief, who, together with his followers, had drawn nearer.
Under Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor, the Gallic auxiliaries went over to Civilis, while they proclaimed their province an empire in its own right.
Thereupon he entered Augusta Treverorum, Trier to be, city of Classicus and Tutor, birthplace of the Gallic rebellion.
Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.
The gigantic Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.
Gallic acid, in doses of five grains every two or three hours, is often a valuable agent to arrest the hemorrhage, but opium in some form should be relied upon principally.
Italy, they would have been almost entirely Gallic, drawn from the rolling pastures on the far side of the Padus in Italian Gaul, or from the great valley of the Rhodanus in Gaul-across-the-Alps.
Arab dhows and Gallic currachs, Greek triremes and balsa-wood PT boats, Canton delta lorcha and lateen-sailed Portuguese trawlers.
For if we can remove the turbulent Gallics, our people according to exactest computations, will in another century, become more numerous than England itself.
Marcus Antonius Meminius had managed to persuade some of the local Gallic tribesmen who lived on farmsteads around Arausio to go out to the battlefield and do what they could to help.
The Gallic way of life was rural, as much pastoral as agricultural, and they spurned urbanization, preferring to cluster in farmsteads and villages.
Therefore we have to have fortifications to keep Vercingetorix in, and fortifications to keep the Gallic relief army out.