gall

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GALL, noun [Gr. probably from its color.] 1. In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, a yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver. It is glutinous or imperfectly fluid, like oil. 2. Any thing extremely bitter. 3. Rancor; malignity. 4. Anger; bitterness of mind.
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