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Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

The gall bladder.

Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

A feeling of exasperation.

To bother or trouble.

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

To exasperate.

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.