gallous

British  

/ ˈɡæləs /

adjective

1. of or containing gallium in the divalent state

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Example Sentences

He used to know you when he was in service at the H——s, and speaks of you as being then "a gallous young hound," whatever that may mean.

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He was a "gallous chap" in his youth, so said my grandmother, with a great love of good clothes and gunpowder.

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Father Reilly's after reading it in gallous Latin, and "It's come in the nick of time," says he; "so I'll wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer who'd capsize the stars."

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I imagine "gallous" to be a rustic Lewis Carroll compound, made up in equal parts of callousness and gallantry, which most boys are, at some stage of their existence.

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You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth—Crossjay, for instance:—there!

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