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Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls. Gallotannic acid. See Tannic acid, under Tannic.

To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

sbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses Shak.

A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

Like gall; bitter as gall. Cranmer.

See Galligaskins.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

Opposed to what is Gallic or French.

A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

ssil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.…

In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.

To make a gallant of. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.

Thriftily; prudently.

In a illegal manner; unlawfully.