gall : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground
  

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Cup"-gall` noun

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1. A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

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• noun small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
  gallfly; cynipid wasp; cynipid gall wasp.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a gall resembling a filbert in form, growing in clusters on grapevines. It is produced by the larva of a gallfly (Cecidomyia).

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• noun a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion
  gallbladder.
  

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• (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.

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• a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct.

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• noun fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants
  gallfly; gall gnat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any insect that produces galls.

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• noun fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants
  gallfly; gall gnat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls.

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• the oak (Quercus infectoria) which yields the galls of commerce.

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• the neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also glass gall and sandiver. Ure.

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• noun common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes
  Nabalus serpentarius; Prenanthes serpentaria; lion's foot.
  

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• (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

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• a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison.

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• noun small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
  gallfly; cynipid wasp; cynipid gall wasp.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Gallfly.

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• noun evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries
  evergreen winterberry; Ilex glabra; inkberry; gallberry.
  

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• a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson.

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• a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.

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• the fresh gall of the domestic ox; used in the arts and in medicine.

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• (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

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• (Zoöl.), any gall found on rosebushes. See Bedeguar.

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• (Far.), a sore or gall upon a horse's back, made by the saddle.

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• (Geol.) See Sand pipe, below.

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• (Zoöl.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera.

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• noun a variety of adelgid
  Adelges abietis.
  

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• to find falt with; to vex. Obs. Chaucer.

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• (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasioptera vitis).

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Wa"ter gall`

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1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
2. A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.

   These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak.

   False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

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• . Same as Water gall, 2. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.

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• (Zoöl.), a conical, scaly gall produced on willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly (Cecidomyia strobiloides).

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• (Zoöl.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvæ inhabit the galls.

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