| 1. | impudence; effrontery. |
| 2. | bile, esp. that of an animal. |
| 3. | something bitter or severe. |
| 4. | bitterness of spirit; rancor. |
Emigrant
Em"i*grant\, n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another. Syn: Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it.
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I never linked gall and bile together. I've heard that so and so had the "gall" to do something, but I never knew that it was related to bodily fluids. How lovely.
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