Word Meanings - GALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. The gall bladder. 3. Anything extremely

Additional info about word: GALL

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. 2. The gall bladder. 3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. Lam. iii. 5. Comedy diverted without gall. Dryden. 4. Impudence; brazen assurance. Gall bladder , the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth , an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria. (more info) galla, Icel. gall, SW. galla, Dan. galde, L. fel, Gr. yellow. Yellow,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GALL)

• Anger
• Ire
• incentment
• vexation
• grudge
• pique
• exasperation
• indignation
• enmity
• displeasure
• irritation
• passion
• spleen
• gall
• resentment
• rage
• animosity
• fury
• choler
• wrath
• Chafe
• Gall
• rub
• vex
• irritate
• chagrin
• tease
• harass
• disappoint
• grieve
• annoy
• worry
• calcitrate
• re sent
• resist
• fret
• fidget
• writhe
• Incense
• Inflame
• provoke
• sting
• nettle
• exasperate
• chafe
• Pester
• Plague
• disquiet
• torment
• harry
• badger
• incommode
• Rankle
• Fester
• smoulder
• burn

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GALL)

• To appease
• compose
• forbear
• allay
• soothe
• calm
• conciliate
• heal

Related words: (words related to GALL)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• INDIGNATION
  1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• AGROSTOLOGIST
  One skilled in agrostology.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
  Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.