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Gall of the earth
Gall Gall, n.[OE. galle, gal, AS. gealla; akin to D. gal, OS. & OHG. galla, Icel. gall, SW. galla, Dan. galde, L. fel, Gr. ?, and prob. to E. yellow. ? See Yellow, and cf. Choler] 1. (Physiol.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. 2. The gall bladder. 3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. --Lam. iii. 5. Comedy diverted without gall. --Dryden. 4. Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang] Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. --Dunglison. Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

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- Gall Force (ガルフォース, Garu Fōsu) is a metaseries of science fiction anime OVAs by the studios Artmic and AIC, with production by Youmex. The original character...
- The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area...
- the gall-of-the-earth or three-leaved rattlesnake root, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern Canada and the eastern...
- A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered...
- The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is a cylindrical projection. It is neither equal-area nor conformal but instead tries...
- efficiently. According to the creators, the projection was created in response to the decision of the Boston public schools to adopt the Gall-Peters projection...
- Cartography C****ini projection Gall–Peters projection (mentions a resolution rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator...
- of the world. Arno Peters stirred controversy beginning in 1972 when he proposed what is now usually called the Gall–Peters projection to remedy the problems...
- notably when compared to the Gall–Peters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off. More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not...
- projections: Gall stereographic; Gall isographic; and Gall orthographic (Gall–Peters projection). Gall was born on 27 September 1808, the son of Ann Collie...