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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gallied in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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