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غَالٍ ذ [act. part. n. of غَلَا: and hence, Acting, or behaving, with forced hardness, or strictness, or rigour, in religion, so that he exceeds the proper, due, or common, limit: (see 1:) and particularly] an extravagant zealot of the class of innovators: pl. غُلَاةٌ. (TA in art. سبأ.) ― -b2- And Shooting, or one who shoots, the arrow to the furthest distance. (Msb.) ― -b3- And High, or excessive, (S, * Msb, K, TA,) applied to a price, or rate, at which a thing is sold; (S, Msb, K, TA;) as also ↓ غَلِىٌّ . (K, TA.) Hence one says, بِعْتُهُ بِالغَالِى and ↓ بِالغَلِىِّ I sold it, or bought it, at what was a high, or an excessive, price, or rate. (K, TA.) A poet says, “ وَلَوْ أَنَّا نُبَاعَ كَلَامَ سَلْمَى
↓ لَأَعْطَيْنَا بِهِ ثَمَنًا غَلِيَّا
” [And if we were sold the speech, or discourse, of Selmà, we would give for it a high, or an excessive, price]. (TA.) ― -b4- Also Fat flesh-meat. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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