galline

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Vne pillule fromentine, vne dragme sermentine, et la balbe [32] d'vne galline est vne bonne medecine.

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  1. Pertaining to or resembling the barn-yard fowl; gallinaceous. [Rare.] The Brush-Turkey … was originally described by Latham in 1821 under the name of the New-Holland Vulture, a misleading designation which he subsequently tried to correct on perceiving its Galline character. A. Newton, Encyc. Brit., XV. 827.

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  1. from Latin gallus, a cock (gallina, a hen), + -ine.
 

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