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(anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
(anatomy) The gall bladder.
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(uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
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* Dryden
(rfc-def) (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
* 1653 , (Izaak Walton), ,
(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
* 1792 , (Mary Wollstonecraft), ,
(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
* 1917 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), ,
(medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
* 1892 , Walt Whitman,
(countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
* 1989
(countable) A pit caused on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
To trouble or bother.
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, title= To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
* June 24, 1778 , (George Washington), The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources:
To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
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To exasperate.
* 1979 , (Mark Bowden), “Captivity Pageant”, The Atlantic , Volume 296, No. 5, pp. 92-97,
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.
(countable) 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 .
* 1974 , Philip P. Wiener (ed.),
(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :
* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
* 1923 , "Mrs. Rinehart", Time , 28 Apr 1923:
* 2010 , The Guardian ,
(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
* 1960 , "Biznelcmd", Time , 20 Jun 1960:
Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
* Dryden
* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :
(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:
(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
* 2008 , Ann Kessel, The Guardian ,
To rely, depend (on).
* 2006 , "Grappling with deficits", The Economist , 9 Mar 2006:
Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
* 2001 , Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer ,
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
* Jonathan Swift
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
* Sir Walter Scott
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
An instance of riding.
(informal) A vehicle.
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
Gall is a related term of ride.
As a noun gall
is foreigner.As a verb ride is
.gall
English
(wikipedia gall)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall .
- Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall .
Chapter 21
- But first for your Line. First note, that you are to take care that your hair be round and clear, and free from galls', or scabs, or frets: for a well- chosen, even, clear, round hair, of a kind of glass-colour, will prove as strong as three uneven scabby hairs that are ill-chosen, and full of ' galls or unevenness. You shall seldom find a black hair but it is round, but many white are flat and uneven; therefore, if you get a lock of right, round, clear, glass-colour hair, make much of it.
Chapter V
- It moves my gall to hear a preacher descanting on dress and needle-work; and still more, to hear him address the British fair, the fairest of the fair, as if they had only feelings.
Chapter 6
- “Durn ye!” he cried. “I’ll lam ye! Get offen here. I knows ye. Yer one o’ that gang o’ bums that come here last night, an’ now you got the gall to come back beggin’ for food, eh? I’ll lam ye!” and he raised the gun to his shoulder.
“Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass
- And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness, / And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)
- Riding a horse with bruised or broken skin can cause a gall , which frequently results in the white saddle marks seen on the withers and backs of some horses.
Derived terms
* gallbladder * gallstoneVerb
(en verb)Chapter 27
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Volume 12, 1745–1799
- The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.
- …he went awkwardly in these clothes at first: wearing the drawers was very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself to them, he took to them at length very well.
December, 1979
- Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.
- Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) galle, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Even so, Redi retained a belief that in certain other cases—the origin of parasites inside the human or animal body or of grubs inside of oak galls'—there must be spontaneous generation. Bit by bit the evidence grew against such views. In 1670 Jan Swammerdam, painstaking student of the insect’s life cycle, suggested that the grubs in ' galls were enclosed in them for the sake of nourishment and must come from insects that had inserted their semen or their eggs into the plants.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* gall midge * gall wasp * gallflyride
English
Verb
- Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
- I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
- It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
6 Oct 2010:
- The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
- Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- The cab rode him downtown.
- Men once walked where ships at anchor ride .
- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home
- The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
- A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
- Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
27 Jul 2008:
- In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
- With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
16 Sep 2001:
- She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
- The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
- The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
Derived terms
* ride bareback * ride bitch * ride herd on * ride one's luck * ride roughshod over * ride shotgun * ride tall in the saddle * ride the rails * ride the pine * ride with the punchesNoun
(en noun)- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- That is a nice ride you are driving.
- Can you give me a ride ?
- (Wright)