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a. Lacking milk to suckle with. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk. ] Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The adjutant bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. “fem. of baghl a mule.” Balfour. ] (Naut.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in the Indian Ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gala show, pomp, fr. It. gala finery, gala; of German origin. See Gallant. ] Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + &unr_; to lead. ] (Med.) An agent exciting secretion of milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; milky, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk. See Galaxy, and cf. Lactic. ] 1. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way. [ 1913 Webster ]

Galactic circle (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. Herschel. --
Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk. Cf. Lactin. ] (Chem.) (a) An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent. (b) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). (c) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_; + E. densimeter. ] Same as Galactometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + -meter: cf. F. galactomètre. Cf. Lactometer. ] An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + &unr_; to eat: cf. &unr_; to live on milk. ] One who eats, or subsists on, milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. galactophade. ] Feeding on milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + fe`rein to bear: cf. F. galactophore. Cf. Lactiferous. ] (Anat.) Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + &unr_; capable of making; fr. &unr_; to make. ] (Med.) Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Obs.) See Galoche. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Galagos [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The grand galago (Galago crassicaudata) is about the size of a cat; the mouse galago (G. murinus)is about the size of a mouse.

{ , n.[ OE. galingale, OF. galingal, garingal, F. galanga (cf. Sp. galanga), prob. fr. Ar. khalanjān. ] The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (Alpinia Galanga and Alpinia officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. galantine. ] A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Galatea, a British man-of-war, the material being used for children's sailor suits. ] A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Galaxies [ F. galaxie, L. galaxias, fr. Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_; circle), fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk; akin to L. lac. Cf. Lacteal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Astron.) 1. The Milky Way, that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A very large collection of stars comparable in size to the Milky Way system, held together by gravitational force and separated from other such star systems by large distances of mostly empty space. Galaxies vary widely in shape and size, the most common nearby galaxies being over 70, 000 light years in diameter and separated from each other by even larger distances. The number of stars in one galaxy varies, and may extend into the hundreds of billions. [ PJC ]

3. A splendid or impressive assemblage of persons or things; as, a galaxy of movie stars. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

‖n. [ L., milkwort, fr. Gr. &unr_;; poly`s much + &unr_; milk. ] A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort. [ 1913 Webster ]