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▪ I. gullery1 Obs. or arch.|ˈgʌlərɪ|
[f. gull v.3 + -ery.]
Deception, trickery, imposture; an instance of this, a deception, trick.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 4 Such as Hermaphroditize these poore times With wicked scald iests, extreame gullerie. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iii. v, For your greene wound, your Balsamum, and your St. John's woort are all mere gulleries. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. iv, Leo Decimus took an extraordinary delight in humoring of silly fellowes, and to put gulleries upon them. 1638Ford Fancies v. i, Spadone Confessed it was a gullery put on Secco. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 315 Law..puts a thousand Tricks and Gulleries upon him. 1681H. More Let. 1 in Glanvill's Sadducismus, The marvellous weakness and gullerie of Mr. Webster's Display of Witchcraft. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 269 Those Mountebanks in Religion, who by fair Stories, and specious Gulleries, wheedle men out of their Sense and Reason. 1821Scott Kenilw. xx, Do you think..that you may put any gullery you will on me?
▪ II. gullery2|ˈgʌlərɪ|
[f. gull n.1 + -ery.]
A haunt or breeding-place of gulls.
1833Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 510 These breeding places, or gulleries [printed galleries], are sometimes at a considerable distance from the sea. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 335/1 The Gullery (or summer resort of the species) produced a revenue of from 50l. to 80l. to the proprietor. 1853Chamb. Jrnl. XX. 237 There used to be a ‘gullery’, as a colony of sea-gulls is called, at Norbury. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere v. 35 With one last long look, we bade adieu to Scoulton Gullery. |