galls

noun

1
Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
2
The gall bladder.
3
Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
4
A feeling of exasperation.
5
Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
6
A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
7
A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
8
A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

1
To bother or trouble.
2
To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
3
To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
4
To exasperate.
5
To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
“Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.”
6
To scoff; to jeer.

1
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 Cynips quercusfolii.
2
A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

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