▪ I. ‖ galion1 Obs.
Also 6–7 gallion.
[Gr. γάλιον.]
The plant Galium verum or Lady's Bedstraw. See galium.
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 38 Galion or gallion is named in englishe in the North countrey Maydens heire. 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. lxxv. 539 Gallion hath small, rounde, euen stemmes, with very small narrowe leaues. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 497 Likewise the seed of Gallion or petty Mugguet. |
▪ II. † galion2 Obs.
? The fore part of a ship.
| 1604 E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 149 The vice⁓admirall..brake halfe the Galion of his owne shippe, and cut of all the hinder part of her. |
▪ III. galion
obs. form of galleon.