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

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The gall bladder.

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

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A feeling of exasperation.

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Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

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

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

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A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

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To bother or trouble.

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

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To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

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To exasperate.

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To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

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Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.

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To scoff; to jeer.

By this means a gall is produced on the under side of the leaf.

How did men have the gall to criticize women for being talkative?

This virus causes the rapid enlargement and subdivision of the cells affected by it, so as to form the tissues of the gall.

Again, galls may afford harbour to insects which are not essentially gall-feeders, as in the case of the Curculio beetle Conotrachelius nenuphar, Hbst., of which one brood eats the fleshy part of the plum and peach, and another lives in the " black knot " of the plum-tree, regarded by Walsh as probably a true cecidomyidous gall.

As regards the mode of production of galls, the most important distinction is between galls that result from the introduction of an egg, or other matter, into the interior of the plant, and those that are due to an agent acting externally, the gall in the latter case frequently growing in such a manner as ultimately to enclose its producers.

The form and nature of the gall are the result of the powers of growth possessed by the plant.

It has long been known, and is now generally recognized, that a gall can only be produced when the tissue of a plant is interfered with during, or prior to, the actual development of the tissue.

Near it is the goats' whey cure establishment of Heinrichsbad, and the two castles of Rosenberg and Rosenburg, ruined in 1403 when the land rose against its lord, the abbot of St Gall.

Others suppose him to have been an Italian, or a monk from the convent of St Gall in Switzerland.

He also, on a journey home from Italy, deciphered in a palimpsest at St Gall the fragments of Flavius Merobaudes, a Roman poet of the 5th century.

But we have fortunately preserved to us an elaborate plan of the great Swiss monastery of St Gall, erected about A.D.

As elucidated by Professor Willis,' it exhibits the plan of a great Benedictine monastery in the 12th century, and enables us to compare it with that of the 9th as seen at St Gall.

There is also a separate chapter-house, which is wanting at St Gall.

Next comes the gall bladder, a pear-shaped bag, the fundus of which is in front and below, the neck behind and above.

The right and left hepatic ducts, while still in the transverse fissure, unite into a single duct which joins the cystic duct from the gall bladder at an acute angle.

The lower (caudal) part of the furrow-like outgrowth remains hollow and forms the gall bladder.

In tracing the lobulation of man's liver back to this generalized type, it is evident at once that his quadrate lobe does not correspond to any one generalized lobe, but is merely that part of the right central which lies between the gall bladder and the umbilical fissure.

Biliary concretions, known as gall stones, are apt to form in the gall-bladder.

It has a stately modern parish church (attached to a Gothic choir), a small but very ancient chapel of the abbots of St Gall (whose summer residence was this village), and two Capuchin convents (one for men, founded in 1588, and one for women, founded in 1613).

In the church of St Gall, Switzerland, in the 9th century there were seventeen.

The English dye for seals is to-day undoubtedly the best; its constituents are more or less of a trade secret, but the principal ingredients comprise gall nuts, copper dust, camphor and antimony, and it would appear after years of careful watching that the atmosphere and particularly the water of London are partly responsible for good and lasting results.

Michael Schlatter (1716-1790), a Swiss of St Gall, sent to America in 1746 by the Synods (Dutch Reformed) of Holland, immediately convened Boehm, Weiss and Rieger in Philadelphia, and with them planned a Coetus, which first met in September 1747; in 1751 he presented the cause of the Coetus in Germany and Holland, where he gathered funds; in 1752 came back to America with six ministers, one of whom, William Stoy (1726-1801), was an active opponent of the Coetus and of clericalism after 1772.

The work of the monks generally took the form of Annales or Chronica, and among the numerous German monasteries which are famous in this connection maybe mentioned Fulda, Reichenau, St Gall and Lorsch.

Lost for a long time, it was rediscovered in the 5th century at St Gall; the oldest existing MS. dates from the 10th century.

He led, separated from his family, an erratic life for some years; was divorced from his consort in 1812; and finally settled at St Gall in Switzerland in great loneliness and indigence.

There are light railways from Appenzell to St Gall either (122 m.) past Gais or (202 m.) past Herisau, as well as lines from St Gall to Trogen (6 m.) and from Rorschach to Heiden (4 4 m.).

By the middle of the 11th century the abbots of St Gall had established their power in the land later called Appenzell, which, too, became thoroughly teutonized, its early inhabitants having probably been romanized Raetians.

From 1798 to 1803 Appenzell, with the other domains of the abbot of St Gall, was formed into the canton Santis of the Helvetic Republic, but in 1803, on the creation of the new canton of St Gall, shrank back within its former boundaries.

The first, known also as the Second Confession of Basel, was drawn up at that city in 1536 by Bullinger and Leo Jud of Zurich, Megander of Bern,Oswald Myconius and Grynaeus of Basel, Bucer and Capito of Strassburg, with other representatives from Schaffhausen, St Gall, Muhlhausen and Biel.

Yet his honied words easily turned to gall.

In 1598 he found a rich protector in the person of Bartholomaeus Schobinger, of St Gall, by whose liberality he was enabled to study at St Gall (where he first became interested in medieval documents, which abound in the conventual library) and elsewhere in Switzerland.

The great Benedictine abbey of Fulda occupies the place in the ecclesiastical history of Germany which Monte Cassino holds in Italy, St Gall in South Germany, Corvey in Saxony, Tours in France and Iona in Scotland.

Gall, which has been largely practised, particularly on the Rhine.

The process of Gall consists in adding sugar and water in sufficient quantity to establish the percentages of free acid and sugar which are characteristic of the best years in the must obtained in inferior years.

After serving as priest in several Bavarian towns, he made his way in 1799 to Linz in Austria, where he was welcomed by Bishop Gall, and set to work first at Leonding and then at Waldneukirchen, becoming in 1806 pastor at Gallneukirchen.

The death of Gall and other powerful friends, however, exposed him to bitter enmity and persecution from about 1812, and he had to answer endless accusations in the consistorial courts.

From the idea that the gall-bladder was the dominating organ of a bitter, sharp temperament, "gall" was formerly used in English for such a spirit, and also for one very ready to resent injuries.

Columbanus was the first of the long stream of famous Irish monks who left their traces in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France; amongst them being Gallus or St Gall, founder of St Gallen, Kilian of Wiirzburg, Virgil of Salzburg, Cathald of Tarentum and numerous others.

From this egg in the spring emerges an apterous female who makes a gall in the new leaf and lays therein a large number of eggs.

A beetle, Saperda populnea, creates a large gall in both willow (Salix spp.) and poplar twigs, including aspen.

The gall bladder is a storage site for bile.

Thought to provide therapy for gall stones and urinary complaints and improve complexion and vision.

With some systemic diseases the gall bladder becomes pale in color and sometimes also distended.

This is joined by the cystic duct from the gall bladder, which then forms the common bile duct.

However, this is the first report of the crown gall on apricot trees grown in Turkey.

Honey fungus and coral spot may affect the plant, but occasional leaf gall is not a major problem.

This was also dangerous for already brittle areas of iron gall ink.

It is caused by a tiny gall wasp Andricus aries.

Click here for answer This is gall stone ileus, a large pigmented stone having impacted in the mid ileum.

The surgeon waited two days before he operated because the gall bladder was so inflamed.