gall

IPA: gˈɔɫ

(anatomy, dated) A gallbladder.
(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
(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.
(uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
(countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
(countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
(medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
(countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
A surname.

(transitive) To bother or trouble.
To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
To exasperate.
To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
To scoff; to jeer.
To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

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