Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
gallein .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A substance obtained by the reduction of galleïn.
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- noun organic chemistry A substance obtained by the
reduction ofgallein .
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Examples
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In Illinye a woman can be freed fr'm th 'gallin' bonds iv mathrimony because her husband wears
Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Well, nex day, gas jumpt $.80 / gallin, der wuz liiiiiiines ov kars!
Hedge Fund - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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U kan goez kroozin if u u taek ur bruddur an sizturz to sokkur praktiss an da mawl an den piks up teh gallin ov milk on da wae hoam, an nont fergit to put gazz in da tank kuz I rilly growchee when u bringz da kar bak wif no gazz an 100 xtra mylz on it, k?
i found my keez! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Illic sunt elegantes alb� gallin�, qu� non vestiuntur plumis vt nostra�, sed optima lana.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So, I had to go and buy a nine gallin 'keg of bere, which I could ill afford to do, and then we went and borrowed a lot of wine and brandy bottles, beside a few we had by us.
Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous
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Ar-rmed on'y with a small thirty-two which I used in th 'West to shoot th' fleet prairie dog, I climbed that precipitous ascent in th 'face iv th' most gallin 'fire I iver knew or heerd iv.
Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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This in itself was vehy gallin ', suh, for up to that time the mail had always been dumped out on the table in the stage office and every gentleman had he'ped himself.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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This in itself was vehy gallin ', suh, for up to that time the mail had always been dumped out on the table in the stage office and every gentleman had he'ped himself.
Colonel Carter of Cartersville Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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These measures would have done away with absenteeism, an unjust and gallin taxation, and would have given Ireland the conthrol, in some degree at laste, of her own local affairs.
Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada Scian Dubh 1855
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VicteTHo - Vt felle gallin£, perdicis, pifeifi plurimorum.
Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio, certa methodo comprehensa, ex ... Marco Gatinaria 1554
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