Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of gally
adjectivegallied (comparative more gallied, superlative most gallied)
comparative more gallied · superlative most gallied
- nauticalworried; flurried; frightened
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.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 87, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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