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In a legal manner.

A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.

th profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

A salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid called pyrogallol. See Pyrogallol.

A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.

In a regal or royal manner.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained from gallic acid as a brown or red crystalline substance, and is related to rufiopin and anthracene.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

rs." Spenser. Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. Latimer.

A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

yal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship.

pearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow. These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak. False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. [A Gallicism]