Gale

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 17

(gal). 1. A shrub, Myrica gale, sweet gale of cool regions; it has an aromatic odor, and is used locally for external parasites. See Sweet Gale. 2. The fern-gale, or sweet fern. See Sweet Fern. G. bedouine. See Lichen simplex.