galar, m. (gs. & npl. -air, gpl. ~).1. Sickness, disease. ~ a thógáil, to contract a disease. Tháinig an ~ air, he took the disease. ~ craicinn, croí, súl, inchinne, skin, heart, eye, brain, disease. ~ gan leigheas, incurable disease. ~ báis, fatal, last, illness. ~ gan náire an tart, thirst knows no shame. ~ béil, thrush. ~ breac (na spéire), smallpox. An ~ breac a chur ar dhuine, to vaccinate s.o. against smallpox. ~ buí, jaundice. ~ cam, casta, staggers (in sheep). ~ carrach, scurvy. ~ cleiteach, moulting. ~ craosach, morbid hunger. ~ creathach, ague. ~ crúibe is béil, foot-and-mouth disease. ~ crupáin, ~ crupánach, aphosphorosis. ~ easpa, deficiency disease. ~ garbh, botts. ~ gasta, flux. ~ scrathach, scab (in sheep). ~ támhach, catalepsy. ~ titimeach, ~ Póil, falling-sickness, epilepsy. ~ trua, pine disease (in cattle, sheep). Tá seacht ngalair an tsléibhe air, he has every disease under the sun. Prov:Dhá dtrian galair le hoíche, the risk of illness is greatest at night; sickness is most intense at night. 2. Affliction, misery. ~ coirp agus intinne, bodily and mental affliction. ~ meanman, affliction of spirit. ~ dubhach, dúchroíoch, melancholy; melancholia. ~ na gcás, perplexity. Bhí sé i n~ na gcás, he was in a quandary. I n~ an ghrá, love-smitten. Gach aon duine is a ghalar féin air, everybody has his own worries. Tá an ~ céanna orm féin, I have the same trouble myself. Ní ~ aon duine amháin é, other people are similarly afflicted. Tá mo ghalar féin ort, you are (afflicted) like myself in that respect. Is iomaí duine a bhfuil an ~ sin air, many people have the same problem to contend with. D’imigh an ~ céanna air, the same thing happened to him. 3. (gs. as attrib. a.) Diseased, miserable, worthless. Rud galair, diseased, mangy, thing. Talamh galair, infected land; worthless land. An saol galair seo, this miserable world.