gallied
English
Adjective
gallied (comparative more gallied, superlative most gallied)
- (nautical) worried; flurried; frightened
- 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:
- 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.
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