gallsickness (galsik" nes)

A remitting malarial fever with jaundice, appearing in the Netherlands; Walcheren fever. gallsomet (gal's um), a. [ Such accusations cry proclaims the 2. One who has been hanged. "It is ill to check sleep or sweat in a sick man," said he; "I know that far, though I ne'er minced [di ected] ape nor gallows - bird . " concave C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xxviii. gallows-bitts (gal'ōz-bits), n. pl. Naut., on men-of-war, a pair of strong frames of oak made in the form of a gallows, fixed between the fore and main hatchways, with cro -beams called gallows-tops tenoned on to the uprights, to support spare topmasts, yards, booms, boats, etc. Also called gallows , gallows - frame , gallows - stanchions . gallows-faced (gal'ōz-fast), a. Rascally-looking. Davies . Gallows-bitts. Art thou there, thou rogue, thou hangdog, thou gal lows -faced vagabond? Brooke , Fool of Quality, ii. 16.