GALL
\ɡˈɔːl], \ɡˈɔːl], \ɡ_ˈɔː_l]\
Definitions of GALL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
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a skin sore caused by chafing
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an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
By Princeton University
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the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
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a skin sore caused by chafing
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an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
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Impudence; brazen assurance.
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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.
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To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
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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.
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To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
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To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
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To scoff; to jeer.
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A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
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Impudence; brazen assurance.
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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.
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To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
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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.
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To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
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To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
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To scoff; to jeer.
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A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
By Noah Webster.
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The bile, especially that of the ox, which is used in making water color paints and medicine; anything very bitter; a sore on the skin from chafing; evil feeling.
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To break or injure by rubbing, as the skin; render sore by friction; vex.
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To fret; to become sore or worn by chafing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The greenish-yellow fluid secreted from the liver, called bile: bitterness: malignity.
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A wound caused by rubbing.
By Daniel Lyons
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Excrescence on the oak, produced by the puncture of an insect.
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The bile; bitterness; rancor.
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To hurt by chafing; annoy.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To render sore by friction; abrade; fret.
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An excrescence on plants, due to insects or to a fungus.
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An abrasion or excoriation.
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The bile; hence, bitter feeling; malignity.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Bile, see Chafing, and Eczema impetiginodes, Quercus infectoria, and Vitrum-g. of the Earth, Prenanthes, P. alba-g. Nut, see Quercus infectoria-g. of the Ox, see Bile-g. of the Skin, Chafing-g. Turkey, see Quercus infeetoria.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: bile, fel.
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The secretion of the liver.
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A swelling such as that produced in plants by the stings of insects. See nutgall.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] The bitter, alkaline, viscid liquor found in the gallbladder beneath the liver;—anything bitter; bitterness; spite; malignity.
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n. [Latin] A vegetable excrescence produced by an insect in the bark or leaves of a plant, as the oak-apple, &c.