gally

noun

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of galley.

   “In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.”

2. (diminutive, form-of, no-plural)Diminutive of gal (“girl”).

adj

1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.

   “For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].”

verb

1. (UK, dialectal)To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry.

   “April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]”