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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gall \Gall\, n. [F. galle, noix de galle, fr L. galla.] (Zo["o]l.) 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}. Note: The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by insects of the genus {Cynips}, chiefly on an oak ({Quercus infectoria or Lusitanica}) of Western Asia and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are used in the manufacture of that article and for making ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine. {Gall insect} (Zo["o]l.), any insect that produces galls. {Gall midge} (Zo["o]l.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls. {Gall oak}, the oak ({Quercus infectoria}) which yields the galls of commerce. {Gall of glass}, the neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also {glass gall} and {sandiver}. --Ure. {Gall wasp}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Gallfly}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gall \Gall\, n.[OE. galle, gal, AS gealla akin to D. gal, OS & OHG. galla, Icel. gall, SW galla, Dan. galde, L. fel, Gr ?, and prob. to E. yellow. ? See {Yellow}, and cf {Choler}] 1. (Physiol.) 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. 2. The gall bladder. 3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. --Lam. iii. 5. Comedy diverted without gall. --Dryden. 4. Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang] {Gall bladder} (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. {Gall duct}, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. {Gall sickness}, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. --Dunglison. {Gall of the earth} (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the {Prenanthes serpentaria}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gall \Gall\, v. t. (Dyeing) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. --Ure. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gall \Gall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Galled}; p. pr & vb n. {Galling}.] [OE. gallen; cf F. galer to scratch, rub, gale scurf, scab, G. galle a disease in horses' feet, an excrescence under the tongue of horses; of uncertain origin. Cf {Gall} gallnut.] 1. 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. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. --Shak. 2. To fret; to vex; as to be galled by sarcasm. They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh. --Shak. 3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. In our wars against the French of old we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gall \Gall\, v. i. To scoff; to jeer. [R.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gall \Gall\, n. A wound in the skin made by rubbing. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gall n 1: an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle [syn: {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 [syn: {resentment}, {bitterness}, {rancor}, {rancour}] 5: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: {crust}, {impertinence}, {impudence}, {insolence}, {cheekiness}, {freshness}] v 1: become or make sore by or as if by rubbing [syn: {chafe}, {fret}] 2: irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit" [syn: {irk}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Gall (1) Heb. mererah meaning bitterness" (Job 16:13); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word is also used of the poison of asps (20:14), and of the vitals, the seat of life (25). (2.) Heb. rosh. In Deut. 32:33 and Job 20:16 it denotes the poison of serpents. In Hos. 10:4 the Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock." The original probably denotes some bitter, poisonous plant, most probably the poppy, which grows up quickly, and is therefore coupled with wormwood (Deut. 29:18; Jer. 9:15; Lam. 3:19). Comp. Jer. 8:14; 23:15, "water of gall," Gesenius "poppy juice;" others "water of hemlock," "bitter water." (3.) Gr chole (Matt. 27:34), the LXX. translation of the Hebrew _rosh_ in Ps 69; 21, which foretells our Lord's sufferings. The drink offered to our Lord was vinegar (made of light wine rendered acid, the common drink of Roman soldiers) "mingled with gall," or according to Mark (15:23), "mingled with myrrh;" both expressions meaning the same thing namely, that the vinegar was made bitter by the infusion of wormwood or some other bitter substance, usually given according to a merciful custom, as an anodyne to those who were crucified, to render them insensible to pain. Our Lord, knowing this refuses to drink it He would take nothing to cloud his faculties or blunt the pain of dying. He chooses to suffer every element of woe in the bitter cup of agony given him by the Father (John 18:11).
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