galliass, galleass Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈgælɪæs)
Forms: 6–9 gal(l)eass(e, -ias(s(e, 6 galeaze, 7 gal(l)iace, galleace, galeas, 6– galliass.
[ad. OF. galeace, galeasse, galiasse, also gall-, ad. It. galeaza, augmentative of galea galley n.]
A heavy, low-built vessel, larger than a galley, impelled both by sail and oars, chiefly employed in war.
| 1544 St. Papers Hen. VIII (1834) III. 504 Foure hundred galleys, foystes, and galyasses. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 42 This gaye galliasse, beand in gude ordour. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 380. a 1642 Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 360/1 A Galleass is built..low and snug..and carries the Force of a Ship..the thing that gives her Advantage in Fight, is her Oars. 1677 F. Sandford Genealog. Hist. Eng. 79 The sinking the great Galeas of the Saracens. 1721 Phil. Trans. XXXI. 246 The Crew should be under some Covert, as they are in a Galeass. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Gg, The quarter of a first-rate galley, otherwise called a galleasse. 1777 Watson Philip II, (1839) 447 The principal galeass, commanded by Moncada..was driven ashore near Calais. 1858 Froude Hist. Eng. III. 248 A French galliass and galleon..attempted to cut out two merchantmen. 1888 Cassell's Mag. Aug. XIV. 559 Galleon and caracke and galleasse Crashed down the stream of flight. |
| transf. and fig. 1592 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 140 Whom..I officiously recommende to the Ship of Fooles and the galeasse of Knaues. 1602 Marston Ant. & Mel. v. Wks. 1856 I. 63 Here's such a companie of flibotes, hulling about this galleasse of greatnesse, that there's no boarding him. |
† b. attrib. in
† galliass-breeches, a jocular augmentative of
gally-breeches.
| 1596 Nashe Have with you Wks. (Grosart) III. 51 Farre more boystrous and cumbersome than a pair of Swissers omnipotent galeaze breeches. |