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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gall \gall\ gaddl, 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. root49. 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.
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2. the gall bladder.
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3. anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
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he hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail.
--lam. iii. 5.
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comedy diverted without gall. --dryden.
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4. impudence; brazen assurance. slang
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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.
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see also:
yellow choler gall bladder gall duct gall sickness gall of the earth
prenanthes serpentaria
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