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▪ I. † ˈgallish, a.1 Obs. rare.
Forms: 6 gaulish, gallishe, 7–8 gallish.
[f. gall n.1 + -ish.]
1. Belonging to the gall, bilious.
1551Turner Herbal i. A v b, Wormwode..dryueth furth..cholerike and gallishe humoures out of the stomack.
2. Tasting like gall, bitter.
1648Hexham Dutch Dict. (1660), Galachtigh, gallish, or as bitter as Gall.
b. fig.
1595Southwell St. Peter's Compl. 69 The pleasing rellish of his former loue, In gaulish thoughts to bitter taste doth proue. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 95 Crimen animo felleo pe petratum, with a bitter or gallish inclination.
▪ II. † gallish, a.2 Obs. rare—1.
[f. gall n.3 + -ish1.]
Of the nature of galls.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 161 Neither the nuts nor the horn having any thing gallish, the Vitriol of the Earth could have no power on them. |