breeze vs gall

breeze

noun
  • An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel. 

  • A light, gentle wind. 

  • Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength. 

  • Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker. 

  • Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. 

  • A brief workout for a racehorse. 

  • A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae. 

verb
  • To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion. 

  • To blow gently. 

  • To move casually, in a carefree manner. 

  • To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface. 

  • To buzz. 

gall

noun
  • A feeling of exasperation. 

  • Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah. 

  • The gall bladder. 

  • A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point. 

  • A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To scoff; to jeer. 

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

  • To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing. 

  • To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point. 

  • To exasperate. 

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

  • To bother or trouble. 

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