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Webster 1913 Edition
Gallature
Gal′la-ture
(?; 135)
, Noun.
[From L.
gallus
a cock.] (Zool.)
The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.
Definition 2024
gallature
gallature
English
Noun
gallature (plural not attested)
- (nonce word, obsolete) The chalaza of an egg.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Whether it [the chicken] be not made out of the grando, gallature, germe or tredde of the egge, as Aquapendente informeth us, doth seem of lesser doubt: for at the blunter end it is not discovered after the chicken is formed […]
- Sir Thomas Browne