gall.

1. Bile, especially in older or literary language.

2. Bold impudence or shameless audacity.

3. An abnormal plant growth commonly produced in response to insects or other organisms.

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• bitter gall

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The passage compared the taste to gall.

The old text described gall as a bodily fluid.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Uncountable for bile or impudence; singular gall and plural galls for plant growths. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.