gally
[ gal-ee ]
verb (used with object),gal·lied, gal·ly·ing.Chiefly Dialect.
to frighten or scare.
Origin of gally
11695–1705; compare earlier gallow, apparently representing Old English agælwan to frighten
Words Nearby gally
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How to use gally in a sentence
Section I of gally's essay, thoroughly conventional in nature, is omitted here.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings | Henry GallyIt is gally's concept of the character as an art-form, however, which is most interesting to the modern scholar.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings | Henry Gallygally breaks sharply with earlier character-writers like Overbury who, he thinks, have departed from the Theophrastan method.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings | Henry GallyHuman nature, says gally, is full of subtle shadings and agreeable variations which the v character ought to exploit.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings | Henry Gallygally's essay thus reflects fundamental changes in the English attitude toward human nature and its literary representation.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings | Henry Gally
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