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n. See bile.

n. Bitterness of feeling; rancor.

n. Something bitter to endure: the gall of defeat.

n. Outrageous insolence; effrontery.

n. A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion: a saddle gall.

n. Exasperation; vexation.

n. The cause of such vexation.

v. To make (the skin) sore by abrasion; chafe.

v. 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.

v. To irk or exasperate; vex: It galled me to have to wait outside.

verb-intransitive. To become irritated, chafed, or sore.

n. An abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects, microorganisms, or external injury.

n. Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

n. The gall bladder.

n. Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

n. A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

n. A feeling of exasperation.

n. Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

n. A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

n. A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

n. A pit caused on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

v. To trouble or bother.

v. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

v. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

v. To exasperate.

v. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

n. A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).

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.

n. The gall bladder.

n. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

n. Impudence; brazen assurance.

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.

v. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

v. 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

v. To fret; to vex.

v. To injure; to harass; to annoy.

verb-intransitive. To scoff; to jeer.

n. A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

n. The bitter secretion of the liver: same as bile, 1. See also ox-gall.

n. Hence—2. Bitterness of feeling; rancor; malignity; hate.

n. The gall-bladder.

n. [Cf. bile, 2.] Impudence; effrontery; cheek. [Local, slang.]

n. The scum of melted glass.

n. A sore on the skin, caused by fretting or rubbing; an excoriation.

n. A fault, imperfection, or blemish. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.]

n. In stone- and marble-cutting, a hollow made in the surface of a slab by changing the direction of the cut.

n. A spot where grass, corn, or trees have failed. Halliwell (spelled gaul).

n. In the southern United States, a low spot, as near the mouth of a river, where the soil under the matted surface has been washed away, or has been so exhausted that nothing will grow on it. See bay-gall.

To fret and wear away, as the skin, by friction; excoriate; break the skin of by rubbing: as, a saddle galls the back of a horse.

To impair the surface of by rubbing; wear away: as, to gall a mast or a cable.

To fret; vex; irritate: as, to be galled by sarcasm.

To harass; distress: as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

To fret; be or become chafed.

To act in a galling manner; make galling or irritating remarks.

n. A vegetable excrescence produced by the deposit of the egg of an insect in the bark or leaves of a plant, ordinarily due to the action of some virus deposited by the female along with the egg, but often to the irritation of the larva.

n. An excrescence on or under the skin of a mammal or a bird, produced by the puncture of an acarid or of an insect of the dipterous genus Œstrus. Encyc. Brit.

n. A distortion in a plant caused by a species of parasitic fungus.

To impregnate with a decoction of galls.

n. A long space without weft in a piece of cloth.

n. A small silver coin of Cambodia, worth about fourpence.

n. abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury

v. irritate or vex

n. an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

v. become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

n. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

n. a skin sore caused by chafing

n. a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

"I. i.101 (158,2) Though ink be made of gall] Shakespeare, even in this poor conceit, has confounded the vegetable _galls_ used in ink, with the animal _gall_, supposed to be bitter."

galled    galling    galls   

anger    animal disease    irritate    digestive juice    digestive fluid   

artichoke-gall    seed-like blackberry-gall    french gall    turkish gall    white galls    in the gall of bitterness    to claw on the gall    indian galls    eglantine gall    aleppo gall   

gallnut   

gallbladder    gall wasp    gall midge   

bitterness    rancor    impudence    fret    vex    injure    harass    annoy    scoff    jeer   

Ball    Fall    Gaul    Hall    Montreal    Nepal    Paul    Raul    Saul    Senegal   

irksome    humiliate    grievous    odious    intolerable    painful    disagreeable    irritate    oppressive    degrade