Definition of gallant

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Gallant (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan..

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Prow :: Prow (superl.) Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.
Servant :: Servant (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
Gallant :: Gallant (a.) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..
Gallant :: Gallant (a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Cavaliero :: Cavaliero (n.) A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine.
Femalist :: Femalist (n.) A gallant.
Prowess :: Prowess (a.) Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree..
Saic :: Saic (n.) A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail..
Fore-topmast :: Fore-topmast (n.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship..
Gallantry :: Gallantry (n.) Gallant persons, collectively..
Ship :: Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix..
Gallant :: Gallant (v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play..
Gallant :: Gallant (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan..
Fore-topgallant :: Fore-topgallant (a.) Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail..
Topgallant :: Topgallant (n.) A topgallant mast or sail.
Serenade :: Serenade (n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies..
Gallanted :: Gallanted (imp. & p. p.) of Gallan.
Swainish :: Swain (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry..
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