Bile

/baɪl/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
3. Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
4. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
5. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

Example Sentences

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.

We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

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• biles
• biling
• bileing
• biled

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