in the Italian music, the name of a tune that belongs to a dance called a Galliard. The air of it is lively in triple time.

GALIC ACID. See CHEMISTRY Index.

GALICAN, anything belonging to France; thus the term Gallican church denotes the church of France, or the assembly of the clergy of that kingdom.

GALICISM, a mode of speech peculiar to the French language, and contrary to the rules of grammar in other languages. With us it is used to denote such phrases or modes of speech in English as are formed after the French idiom.