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Definition of Gulleries
1. gullery [n] - See also: gullery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulleries
Literary usage of Gulleries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"... insulting over their inferiors, especially over such as any way depend upon
them, humouring, misusing, or putting gulleries on some or other till they ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Away, these are mere gulleries, horrid things, To abuse us. Webster, Duchess of
Malfi, ili. 1. Invented by some cheating mountebanks Do you think, ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes by Robert Burton (1804)
"... especially over such as any way depend upon them, humoring, misusing, or
putting gulleries on some or other, till they have made, by their humoring or ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomsm by Robert Burton (1850)
"... humouring, misusing, or putting gulleries on some or other till they have made
by their humouring or gulling 49 ex stulto insanum^ a mope or a noddy, ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1821)
"... humoring, misusing, or putting gulleries on some or other, till they have
made, by their humoring or gulling, fex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy, ..."
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