Word Meanings - GALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.

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• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• VEXINGLY
  In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. Tatler.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• VEXILLUM
  The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard. (more info) A flag or standard. A company of troops serving under one standard. A banner. The sign of the cross.
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• VEXILLATION
  A company of troops under one vexillum.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• IRRITATION
  The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial
• VEXED
  1. Annoyed; harassed; troubled. 2. Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
• IRRITATE
  To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall.
• CHAFEWEED
  The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.
• CHAFE
  calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See 1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret;
• HARASSER
  One who harasses.
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• VEXILLARY
  A standard bearer. Tennyson.
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• HARASSMENT
  The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.
• VEX
  vexer, L. vexare, vexatum, to vex, originally, to shake, toss, in 1. To to White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. Pope. 2. To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to
• IRRITATORY
  Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. Hales.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• ENCHAFE
  To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.
• INIRRITATIVE
  Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.