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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.

Meaning of Gall sickness from wikipedia

- 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...
- host to the following insect induced gall Procecidochares utilis an Eupatorium Gall Fly that produces a stem gall (see image below). Crofton weed is toxic...
- species of midges include: Blephariceridae, net-winged midges Cecidomyiidae, gall midges Ceratopogonidae, biting midges (also known as no-see-ums or punkies...
- coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, deaf people, Fleury-sur-Loire, gall stones, hernias, illness, insanity, mental illness, mentally ill people,...
- (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...
- 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):...
- ISBN 978-0-415-21613-5. Gall, Lothar (1990). Bismarck: The White Revolutionary. Vol. 1. Unwin Hyman. ISBN 978-0-04-445778-7. Gall, Lothar (1990). Bismarck:...
- 1530. Moving on to St. Gall, he then completed his Opus Paramirum in 1531, which he dedicated to Joachim Vadian. From St. Gall, he moved on to the land...
- defoliation. Small galls are formed on the leaves by a bladder mite, Aceria negundi. A gall midge, Contarinia negundinis joins and enlarges the galls of Aceria...