Definizione monolingua

gall

gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)

1. (transitive) To trouble or bother.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Part Five, Chapter 27

     I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

2. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
   • June 24, 1778, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources: Volume 12, 1745–1799

     The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.

3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     …he went awkwardly in these clothes at first: wearing the drawers was very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself to them, he took to them at length very well.

4. To exasperate.
   • 1979, Mark Bowden, “Captivity Pageant”, The Atlantic, Volume 296, No. 5, pp. 92-97, December, 1979

     Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.

5. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

   Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface

gall (countable and uncountable; plural galls)

1. (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.
2. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Job 20:24–25

     He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall.

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Deuteronomy 29:18

     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;

4. (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
   • 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Chapter 21

     But first for your Line. 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. 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.

5. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter V

     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.

6. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
   • 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, Chapter 6

     “Durn ye!” he cried. “I’ll lam ye! Get offen here. I knows ye. 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.

7. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
   • 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass

     And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness, / And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;

8. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
   • 1989 National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)

     Riding a horse with bruised or broken skin can cause a gall, which frequently results in the white saddle marks seen on the withers and backs of some horses.

9. (countable) A pit caused on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

gall (not comparable)

1. Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul, its people or language)

Definizione dizionario gall

	bile
	A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

galla

	fiele
	A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

faccia di bronzo

impudenza

irritare

sfacciataggine

Altri significati:

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

sore or open wound caused by chafing

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

(transitive) To trouble or bother.

blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants

(uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

impudence or brazenness

(countable) 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 sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

bump-like imperfection

(countable) A pit caused on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

to trouble or bother

(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) A feeling of exasperation.

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

To exasperate.

to harass, harry

great misery or physical suffering

bile

gall bladder

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

to exasperate

to chafe

sore on a horse

(anatomy) The gall bladder.