Both Uses of
gall
in
Moby Dick
- Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.†
Chpt 79-81
- Nor have Gall and his disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the phrenological characteristics of other beings than man.†
Chpt 79-81 *
Definition:
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(gall as in: had the gall to) boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others