1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses Shak.
2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] Shak.
3. (Print.)
Defn: The rest for the tympan when raised.
4. pl.
Defn: A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.] Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.] — Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; — called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. — Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. — Gallows, or Gallow tree, the gallows. At length him nailéd on a gallow tree. Spenser.
GALLSTONE
Gall"stone`, n.
Defn: A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
GALLY
Gal"ly, v. t. Etym: [See Gallow, v. t.]
Defn: To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.