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noun

Gall n.

(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.

The gall bladder.

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. "He hath... compassed me with gall and travail." "Comedy diverted without gall."

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.

Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct.

Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands.

Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gall of the earth" Quotes from Famous Books

... measure the restorative antiseptic virtues of the Field Gentian and the Buckbean. There are four wild varieties of the Centaury, square stemmed, and each bearing flat tufts of flowers which are more or less rose coloured. The ancients named this bitter plant the Gall of the Earth, and it is now known ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie