Bile

Definitions

1. A boil (kind of swelling).
   obsolete
2. A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.
3. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
   uncountable, usually
4. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
   uncountable, usually
5. Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“I shall tire⟳ of my Journal if it is to contain⟳ nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.”

“He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.”

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