To scoff; to jeer.

A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by
insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small
Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in
the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to
aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

Impudence; brazen assurance.

The gall bladder.

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.

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the
skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition;
as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.