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▸ noun: (anatomy, archaic, countable) A gallbladder.
▸ noun: (physiology, archaic, 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.
▸ noun: (figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
▸ noun: (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
▸ noun: (pathology, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
▸ noun: (figurative, uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
▸ noun: (countable, technical) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
▸ verb: (ergative) To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To bother or trouble.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To exasperate.
▸ verb: (transitive, technical) To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To scoff; to jeer.
▸ noun: (phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
▸ noun: A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
▸ verb: (transitive) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
▸ noun: A surname.
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crust,
bitterness,
chafe,
freshness,
cheekiness,
fret,
rancor,
impudence,
impertinence,
resentment,
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