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Gall   /gɔl/   Listen
Gall

noun
1.
An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.  Synonym: 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.  Synonyms: bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment.
5.
A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats.  Synonym: bile.
6.
The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.  Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence.
verb
(past & past part. galled; pres. part. galling)
1.
Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing.  Synonyms: chafe, fret.
2.
Irritate or vex.  Synonym: irk.



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"Gall" Quotes from Famous Books



... "desert blossom as the rose." They were untiring in zeal for the Church and in deeds of mercy. They established cloister schools in Italy, France, Spain, England, Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland. Monte Cassino (529), Italy; Canterbury (586) and Oxford (ninth century), England; St. Gall (613), Switzerland; Fulda (744), Constance, Hamburg, and Cologne (tenth century), Germany; Lyons, Tours, Paris, and Rouen (tenth century), France; Salzburg (696), Austria; and many other schools were founded chiefly by the Benedictines. ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley

... combination of circumstances engineered by a master brain, knew what it was to be checkmated. He had hot the least doubt of ultimate victory, but the tentative success of the brazen young adventurer, were gall and wormwood to his soul. He had made money his god, had always believed it would buy anything worth while except life, but this Western buccaneer had taught him it could not purchase the love of a woman nor the immediate defeat of a man so well armed as Waring Ridgway. In truth, though ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... because the white banner of Christian charity floated over the conference ground, because she showed so clearly that she loved the race whose recklessness grieved her, because her rebukes were free from scorn, and written rather in tears than gall, people turned their ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... malignity actuated Levi Baggs meanwhile, who can say? He was now a man in sight of seventy, yet his crabbed soul would exude gall under pressure as of yore. None was ever cheered or heartened by anything he might say; but to cast a neighbour down, or make a confident and contented man doubtful and discontented, affected Mr. Baggs favourably and ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts

... sar," replied Peter sternly. "He no captain ob mine. I was on'y loaned to him. But I knows nuffin ob de gall. Bery likely she's de Dey's forty-second wife by dis time. Hush! look sulky," he added quickly, observing that ...
— The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story • R.M. Ballantyne


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