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Definition of Gall

1. Noun. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.

2. Verb. Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing.

3. Noun. A skin sore caused by chafing.

4. Verb. Irritate or vex. "The performance is likely to gall Sue"; "It galls me that we lost the suit"

5. Noun. Abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury.

6. Noun. A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.

7. Noun. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats.

8. Noun. The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.

Definition of Gall

1. n. The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

2. n. An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

3. v. t. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

4. v. t. To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

5. v. i. To scoff; to jeer.

6. n. A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Definition of Gall

1. to vex or irritate [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Gall

1. 1. To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. "I am loth to gall a new-healed wound." (Shak) 2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. "They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh." (Shak) 3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. "In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows." (Addison) Origin: OE. Gallen; cf. F. Galer to scratch, rub, gale scurf, scab, G. Galle a disease in horses' feet, an excrescence under the tongue of horses; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gall gallnut. A wound in the skin made by rubbing. 1. The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. 2. The gall bladder. 3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. "He hath . . . Compassed me with gall and travail." (Lam. Iii. 5) "Comedy diverted without gall." (Dryden) 4. Impudence; brazen assurance. Gall bladder, the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Gall of the earth, an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria. Origin: OE. Galle, gal, AS. Gealla; akin to D. Gal, OS. & OHG. Galla, Icel. Gall, SW. Galla, Dan. Galde, L. Fel, Gr, and prob. To E. Yellow. See Yellow, and cf. Choler. An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut. The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by insects of the genus Cynips, chiefly on an oak (Quercus infectoria or Lusitanica) of Western Asia and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are used in the manufacture of that article and for making ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine. Gall insect See Gallfly. Origin: F. Galle, noix de galle, fr. L. Galla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gall

galipot galipot galipots Galium Galium aparine Galium boreale Galium lanceolatum Galium mollugo Galium odoratum Galium verum

galivant galivanted galivanting galivants gall (current term) gall (current term) Gall's craniology gall-berry galla gallabea

gallabeas gallabia gallabias gallamine gallamines gallamine triethiodide gallant gallant gallanted gallanter

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