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gall1

[gawl] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	impudence; effrontery.

2.	bile, esp. that of an animal.

3.	something bitter or severe.

4.	bitterness of spirit; rancor.

—Idiom

5.	gall and wormwood, bitterness of spirit; deep resentment.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE galla, gealla; c. G Galle; akin to L fel, Gk chol gall, bile

]

—Synonyms 1. nerve, audacity, brass, cheek.

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gall2

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–verb (used with object)

1.	to make sore by rubbing; chafe severely: The saddle galled the horse's back.

2.	to vex or irritate greatly: His arrogant manner galls me.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to be or become chafed.

4.	Machinery. (of either of two engaging metal parts) to lose metal to the other because of heat or molecular attraction resulting from friction.

5.	Metallurgy. (of a die or compact in powder metallurgy) to lose surface material through adhesion to the die.

–noun

6.	a sore on the skin, esp. of a horse, due to rubbing; excoriation.

7.	something very vexing or irritating.

8.	a state of vexation or irritation.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME galle (n.), gallen (v.) perh. < MD, MLG gall, akin to OE gealla sore on a horse

]

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gall3

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–noun

any abnormal vegetable growth or excrescence on plants, caused by various agents, as insects, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, chemicals, and mechanical injuries.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME galle < MF < L galla gallnut. See gall²

]

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Gall

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–noun

(Pizi

), 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.

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bile (bīl) Pronunciation Key
n.

A bitter, alkaline, brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow fluid that is secreted by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum and aids in the emulsification, digestion, and absorption of fats. Also called gall¹.
Bitterness of temper; ill humor; irascibility.
Either of two bodily humors, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

[French, from Latin bīlis.]

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gall¹ (gôl) Pronunciation Key
n.

See bile.
1. Bitterness of feeling; rancor.
2. Something bitter to endure: the gall of defeat.
Outrageous insolence; effrontery.

[Middle English, from Old English gealla, galla; see ghel-² in Indo-European roots.]

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gall² (gôl) Pronunciation Key
n.

A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion: a saddle gall.
1. Exasperation; vexation.
2. The cause of such vexation.

v. galled, gall·ing, galls

v. tr.

To make (the skin) sore by abrasion; chafe.
To damage or break the surface of by or as if by friction; abrade: the bark of saplings galled by improper staking. See Synonyms at chafe.
To irk or exasperate; vex: It galled me to have to wait outside.

v. intr.
To become irritated, chafed, or sore.

[Middle English galle, from Old English gealla, possibly from Latin galla, nutgall.]

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gall³ (gôl) Pronunciation Key
n. An abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects, microorganisms, or external injury.

[Middle English galle, from Old French, from Latin galla, nutgall.]

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gall (1)

"bile," O.E. galla (Anglian), gealla (W. Saxon), from P.Gmc. *gallon- (cf. O.N. gall, O.H.G. galla), from PIE base *ghol-/*ghel- "gold, yellow, yellowish-green" (cf. Gk. khole, see cholera; L. fel; perhaps also O.E. geolo "yellow," Gk. khloros). Informal sense of "impudence, boldness" first recorded Amer.Eng. 1882; but meaning "embittered spirit, rancor" is from c.1200.

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gall (2)

"sore spot on a horse," O.E. gealla "painful swelling," from L. galla "gall, lump on plant," originally "oak apple," of uncertain origin. Perhaps from or influenced by gall (1) on notion of "poison-sore." The verb meaning "to make sore by chafing" is from c.1440; fig. sense of "harass, irritate" is from 1573.

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gall
noun
1.	an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle [syn: saddle sore]
2.	a skin sore caused by chafing
3.	abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
4.	a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment]
5.	a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats [syn: bile]
6.	the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust]
verb
1.	become or make sore by or as if by rubbing [syn: chafe]
2.	irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit"

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gall (gôl) Pronunciation Key

An abnormal swelling of plant tissue, caused by injury or by parasitic organisms such as insects, mites, nematodes, and bacteria. Parasites stimulate the production of galls by secreting chemical irritants on or in the plant tissue. Galls stimulated by egg-laying parasites typically provide a protective environment in which the eggs can hatch and the pupae develop, and they usually do only minor damage to the host plant. Gall-stimulating fungi and microorganisms, such as the bacterium that causes crown gall, are generally considered to be plant diseases.

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gall ¹ (gôl)
n.
See bile.

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gall ² (gôl)
n.
A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion. v. galled, gall·ing, galls
To become irritated, chafed, or sore.

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Gall

Gall\, n.[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]

1. (Physiol.) 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. [Slang]

Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct.

Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. --Dunglison.

Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

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Gall\, n. [F. galle, noix de galle, fr. L. galla.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Note: 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 (Zo["o]l.), any insect that produces galls.

Gall midge (Zo["o]l.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls.

Gall oak, the oak (Quercus infectoria) which yields the galls of commerce.

Gall of glass, the neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also glass gall and sandiver. --Ure.

Gall wasp. (Zo["o]l.) See Gallfly.

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Gall\, v. t. (Dyeing) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. --Ure.

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Gall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Galled; p. pr. & vb. n. Galling.] [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.]

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.

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Gall\, v. i. To scoff; to jeer. [R.] --Shak.

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Gall\, n. A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

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Gall

(1) Heb. mererah, meaning "bitterness" (Job 16:13); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word is also used of the poison of asps (20:14), and of the vitals, the seat of life (25). (2.) Heb. rosh. In Deut. 32:33 and Job 20:16 it denotes the poison of serpents. In Hos. 10:4 the Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock." The original probably denotes some bitter, poisonous plant, most probably the poppy, which grows up quickly, and is therefore coupled with wormwood (Deut. 29:18; Jer. 9:15; Lam. 3:19). Comp. Jer. 8:14; 23:15, "water of gall," Gesenius, "poppy juice;" others, "water of hemlock," "bitter water." (3.) Gr. chole (Matt. 27:34), the LXX. translation of the Hebrew _rosh_ in Ps. 69; 21, which foretells our Lord's sufferings. The drink offered to our Lord was vinegar (made of light wine rendered acid, the common drink of Roman soldiers) "mingled with gall," or, according to Mark (15:23), "mingled with myrrh;" both expressions meaning the same thing, namely, that the vinegar was made bitter by the infusion of wormwood or some other bitter substance, usually given, according to a merciful custom, as an anodyne to those who were crucified, to render them insensible to pain. Our Lord, knowing this, refuses to drink it. He would take nothing to cloud his faculties or blunt the pain of dying. He chooses to suffer every element of woe in the bitter cup of agony given him by the Father (John 18:11).

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