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plural gallies
Archaic form of galley. quotations examples
In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.
1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200
comparative more gally, superlative most gally
Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter. quotations examples
For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV
third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To frighten; to worry. quotations
The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]
April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
plural not attested
Diminutive of gal (“girl”) examples