▪ I. galled, ppl. a.1 nonce-wd.
[f. gall n.1 + -ed2.]
Mixed with gall, made bitter.
| 1604 F. Herring Mod. Defence 24 Hee that should taste your sweetned Gall, would call it sugar, and not sugred gall. |
▪ II. galled, ppl. a.2
(gɔːld)
[orig. f. gall n.2 + -ed2, but afterwards taken as f. gall v.1 + -ed1.]
1. a. Affected with galls or painful swellings. b. Sore from chafing. Often preceded by some defining word, as harness-galled, saddle-galled, spur-galled, trace-galled.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Gif hors geallede sie. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 46 The hors, on which she rode, was black, All lene and galled upon the back. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas i. xx. (1554) 37 b, A galled horse, the sooth if ye list se, who trucketh him boweth his back for dred. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 185/1 Gallyd (S. gally), strumosus. 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 69, I rub the gald hors backe till he winche. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 253 Let the galld iade winch: our withers are vnrung. 1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Prof. 151 Most persons are like gauld horses that cannot indure the rubbing of their sores. 1818 Art Preserv. Feet 124 Trusting to the apparently insignificant name of a galled toe. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) I. iii. 207 Less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. 1866 Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. 146, I had a galled heel. |
2. fig. Irritated, vexed, unquiet, distressed.
| 1601 Dent Pathw. Heaven 328, I will leaue you to God, and to your galled conscience. 1621 Bp. Hall Heaven upon Earth §4 The galled soule doth after the wont of sicke Patients seeke refreshing in variety. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 161 Gall'd jealousy, like as the tide, ebbs to rest. 1837 Lytton E. Maltrav. 243 His galled and indignant spirit demanded solitude. |
3. Of land: Bare through exhaustion or removal of soil.
| 1881 Leicester Gloss., Galled..also applied to land having patches on which the crop has not grown or has been withered. 1883 C. F. Smith in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 49 Galled spots in a field are places where the soil has been washed away, or has been so exhausted that nothing will grow. |
4. Comb., as galled-back, galled-backed adjs.
| 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. vii. 309 Thereby now doth only graze The gall'd-backe carrion Iade. 1690 Lond. Gaz. No. 2604/4 A Dark bay stray Nag..blind of the near eye, gall'd backt. |
Hence ˈgalledness.
| 1569 R. Androse tr. Alexis' Secr. iv. ii. 15 Against the galdnesse of the feete. |
▪ III. galled, ppl. a.3 Dyeing.
(gɔːld)
[f. gall v.2 + -ed1.]
Treated with a decoction of gall-nuts.
| 1581 Act 23 Eliz. c. 9 §3 Hosen, have been dyed with..a galled and mathered Black. |