His gall is not yet broken; a saying used in prisons of a man just brought in, who appears dejected.
·noun The gall bladder. II. Gall ·noun Impudence; brazen assurance. III. Gall ·noun A wound in the...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(1) Heb. mererah, meaning "bitterness" (Job 16:13); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See wind-gall. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Mereerah, denoting "that which is bitter;" hence the term is applied to the "bile" or "gall" (the fl...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun A kind of oak-leaf gall. ·see <<Gall>>. ...
·- A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout. II. Water gall ·- A watery appearan...
A name of the wind-gall (which see). Shakspeare, in the Rape of Lucrece, uses the term thus: "And ...
"A weather-gall at morn, Fine weather all gone." (See wind-gall.) ...
A luminous halo on the edge of a distant cloud, where there is rain, usually seen in the wind's eye,...