Definitions for the word "gall" from multiple English dictionaries.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The gall bladder.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Impudence; brazen assurance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To scoff; to jeer.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 slang impudence. 2 rancour. 3 bitterness. 4 bile. [old norse]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. n.
1 sore made by chafing. 2 mental soreness or its cause. 3 place rubbed bare. v. 1 rub sore. 2 vex, humiliate. [low german or dutch galle]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
14. n.
Growth produced by insects etc. On plants and trees, esp. On oak. [latin galla]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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