a measure of capacity both for dry and liquid things, containing four quarts. But these quarts, and consequently the gallon itself, are different, according to the quality of the thing measured: For instance, the wine-gallon contains 231 cubic inches, and holds eight pounds avoirdupois of pure water; the beer and ale gallon contains 281 solid inches, and holds ten pounds three ounces and a quarter avoirdupois of water; and the gallon for corn, meal, &c. 272 cubic inches, and holds nine pounds thirteen ounces of pure water.

in the manege, is the swiftest natural pace of a horse, performed by reaches or leaps; the two fore-feet being raised almost at the same time; and when these are in the air, and just ready to touch the ground again, the two hind-feet are lifted almost at once. The word is borrowed from the barbarous Latin calipare, or calpare, "to run." Some derive it from caballicare; others from the Greek καλλιπάτην, or καλλιπάτην, to spur a horse.