Word Meanings - GALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to GALLING)
- 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.