Word Meanings - GALLOPADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop. 2. A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.

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• DANCER
  One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• GALLOPADE
  1. I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop. 2. A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• DANCERESS
  A female dancer. Wyclif.
• GALLOP
  ga-hlaupan to run, OHG. giloufen, AS. gehleápan to leap, dance, fr. root of E. leap, and a prefix; or cf. OFlem. walop a gallop. See 1. To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• GALOP
  A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.
• GALLOPING
  Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
• DANCETTE
  Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• SIDELONG
  1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side. 2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong. Note: Evelyn.
• GALLOPIN
  An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. Halliwell.
• MUSICALNESS
  The quality of being musical.
• DANCE
  apinsan, and prob. from the same root as E. 1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, to the sound of music; to trip or leap
• MUSICIAN
  One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
• MUSICAL
  Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons. Musical, or Music,
• HORSEMANSHIP
  The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• MEGALOPSYCHY
  Greatness of soul.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• OUTRECUIDANCE
  Excessive presumption. B. Jonson.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• ADANCE
  Dancing. Lowell.
• VOIDANCE
  A ejection from a benefice. 3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. 4. Evasion; subterfuge. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.