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Webster 1913 Edition


Gallied

Gal′lied

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p.
p.
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Adj.
(Naut.)
Worried; flurried; frightened.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Definition 2024


gallied

gallied

English

Adjective

gallied (comparative more gallied, superlative most gallied)

  1. (nautical) worried; flurried; frightened
    • 1851, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ch 87.
      Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.