An alternative spelling or variant form meaning resembling or relating to hens or chickens.
A variant spelling of 'galline', using the older English suffix '-ey' instead of '-ine' to mean 'having the quality of'; this represents regional or historical spelling variations.
This word is so rare in modern English that it's practically a lexical fossil—finding it in old texts is like discovering how people experimented with different word endings before standardized spelling became common.
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