(now rare) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.

To furnish with galaxies. / (archaic) To gather together into a luminous whole.

A chemical element (symbol Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.

(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; charm; enchant. / (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak. / (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.

(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. / An outburst, especially of laughter.

(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.

A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.

A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints / (Britain, Canada) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon / (US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")

(humorous) A notional space monster invoked to explain the high failure rate of probes sent to Mars.