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Definition of Gall sickness

Gall sickness
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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- camels in Algeria) Galziekte, galzietzke (bilious fever of cattle; gall sickness of South Africa) Peste-boba (of Venezuela; Derrengadera) Some species...
- induced galls: Asphondylia eupatorii Felt, 1911 (spring and summer generations) stem gall midge Neolasioptera eupatorii (Felt, 1907) stem gall midge Schizomyia...
- to the following insect induced gall: Procecidochares utilis Stone, 1947 Eupatorium Gall Fly that produces a stem gall (see image). external link to gallformers...
- species of midges include: Blephariceridae, net-winged midges Cecidomyiidae, gall midges Ceratopogonidae, biting midges (also known as no-see-ums or punkies...
- mentally ill people, midwives, mute people, muteness, mutes, orphans, ruptures, sheep, shepherds, sick people, sickness, cattle, unattractive people...
- Confederation The Union Jack (2nd Series) 1,086 The Case of the Strange Sickness Anon. (George Hamilton Teed) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 1,087 The Mystery...
- And Other Stories,18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (2 novellas) Oliver Goldsmith 1794 1861...
- and in surviving folklore also has a magical bridle for the cow. In the St Gall incantations, Goibniu is invoked against thorns (either literal or metaphorical):...
- (Glossina palpalis) and sleeping sickness. He published: A Naturalist on Lake Victoria, with an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the Tse-tse Fly; 1920. T...
- At the time, symptoms relating to epilepsy were diagnosed as falling sickness and treatments included rubbing blood of a non-sufferer on the lips of...