These are the meanings of the letters ALGOL when you unscramble them.
- Gall (n.)
A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
- Gall (n.)
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.
- Gall (n.)
Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
- Gall (n.)
Impudence; brazen assurance.
- Gall (n.)
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.
- Gall (n.)
The gall bladder.
- Gall (v. i.)
To scoff; to jeer.
- Gall (v. t.)
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.
- Gall (v. t.)
To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
- Gall (v. t.)
To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
- Gall (v. t.)
To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
- Gaol (n.)
A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
- Goal (n.)
A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.
- Goal (n.)
The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
- Goal (n.)
The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
- Olla (n.)
A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.
- Olla (n.)
A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.