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(anatomy, dated) A gallbladder.

A feeling of exasperation.

Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

(anatomy, obsolete) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

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

To bother or trouble.

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

To exasperate.

A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

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

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.

(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).

A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.