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Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.

orosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

To broil; to grill; hence, To harass. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. To grind the subject or defraud the prince. Dryden.

To harass; to weary with vexation. How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. L'Estrange.

To harass; to plunder from. [Obs.] Fuller.

To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. Shak.

To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot.

Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

g or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. Locke.

To attack or harass. [Obs.] Knolles. (d) (Naut.) To check the motion of (a vessel) and cause it to be stationary. -- To lay to heart, to feel deeply; to consider earnestly. -- To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or restraint. -- To lay unto. (a) Same as To lay to (above). (b) To put before. Hos.…

ing place to another; military progress; advance of troops. These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon.

One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Mat…

One who persecutes, or harasses. Shak.

To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations. We are pestered with mice and rats. Dr. H. More. A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world. Dryden.