غَالٍ
1.
[act. particle 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: plural غُلَاةٌ. (TA in article سبأ.)
2.
And Shooting, or one who shoots, the arrow to the furthest distance. (Msb.)
3.
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,
[And if we were sold the speech, or discourse, of Selmà, we would give for it a high, or an excessive, price]. (TA.)وَلَوْ أَنَّا نُبَاعَ كَلَامَ سَلْمَى
4.
Also Fat flesh-meat. (K.)