(medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

Yer one o’ that gang o’ bums that come here last night, an’ now you got the gall to come back beggin’ for food, eh? I’ll lam ye!” and he raised the gun to his shoulder.

* 1917, ( Edgar Rice Burroughs),, Chapter 6.

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness temerity, chutzpah.

It moves my gall to hear a preacher descanting on dress and needle-work and still more, to hear him address the British fair, the fairest of the fair, as if they had only feelings.

* 1792, ( Mary Wollstonecraft),, Chapter V.

(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.

You shall seldom find a black hair but it is round, but many white are flat and uneven therefore, if you get a lock of right, round, clear, glass-colour hair, make much of it. First note, that you are to take care that your hair be round and clear, and free from galls ', or scabs, or frets: for a well- chosen, even, clear, round hair, of a kind of glass-colour, will prove as strong as three uneven scabby hairs that are ill-chosen, and full of ' galls or unevenness.

( rfc-def) (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.īut first for your Line.

The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood

(uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.It is drawn and cometh out of the body yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall.

He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

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