Gall
[gɔːl] or [ɡɔl]
Definition
(noun.) abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury.
(noun.) a skin sore caused by chafing.
(verb.) irritate or vex; 'It galls me that we lost the suit'.
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Definition
(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. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
(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.
(v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
(v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
(v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.
(n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
Editor: Lucius
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. (Anat.) Bile.[2]. Bitterness, rancor, spite, malice, maliciousness, malignity.[3]. Nutgall, gall-nut.
v. a. [1]. Chafe, fret, excoriate, hurt by rubbing.[2]. Provoke, vex, irritate, tease, exasperate, incense, affront, harass, annoy, plague.
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Definition
n. a light nut-like ball which certain insects produce on the oak-tree used in dyeing—also Gall′-nut.—v.t. to fret or hurt the skin by rubbing: to annoy: to enrage.—v.i. (Shak.) to act in a galling manner.—ns. Gall′ate a salt of gallic acid; Gall′fly an insect which occasions gall on plants by puncturing.—adj. Gall′ing irritating.—adv. Gall′ingly.—Gallic acid a crystalline substance obtained from gall-nuts and used in making ink.
n. the greenish-yellow fluid secreted from the liver called bile: bitterness: malignity.—ns. Gall-bladd′er a pear-shaped bag lying on the under side of the liver a reservoir for the bile; Gall′-stone a hard concretion in the gall-bladder or biliary ducts.—Gall and wormwood anything extremely disagreeable and annoying.—In the gall of bitterness in a state of extreme hostility to God (Acts viii. 23).
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Examples
- But they are apples of Sodom, as a matter of fact, Dead Sea Fruit, gall-apples. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It smells of anis but it is bitter as gall, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Golz has always hated Gall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Take the colours and odour from the rose, change the sweet nutriment of mother's milk to gall and poison; as easily might you wean Perdita from love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Golz hated Gall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The mildness of my nature had fled, and all within me was turned to gall and bitterness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Reade, were shown at the London institution, which were described to have been produced by an infusion of galls, and fixed with hyposulphite of soda. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But mankind is a dead tree, covered with fine brilliant galls of people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nothing galls me more than the notion of turning round and running away before this slander, leaving it unchecked behind me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Also, how very wise it is in people placed in an exceptional position to hold their tongues and not rashly declare how such position galls them! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sikes knew too much, and his ruffian taunts had not galled Fagin the less, because the wounds were hidden. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She would not say that Miss Keeldar's hastiness had hurt her feelings, but it was evident an inward wound galled her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Why, no; only Joe Scott's wrists were a little galled with being pinioned too tightly behind his back. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Trenor's unconsciousness of the real stress of the situation had the effect of making it more galling to Lily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is the only way out of a false position, and a very galling one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was not the dullest part of this goad in its galling of Bradley Headstone, that he had made it himself in a moment of incautious anger. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have had a severe galling to begin with: that will make the small rubs seem easy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is a terrible moment in young lives when the closeness of love's bond has turned to this power of galling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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