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Webster 1913 Edition
Bile
Bile
,Noun.
[L.
bilis
: cf. F. bile
.] 1.
(Physiol.)
A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
2.
Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor;
as, to stir one’s
. bile
Prescott.
☞ The ancients considered the bile to be the “humor” which caused irascibility.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bile
BILE
,Noun.
BILE
,Noun.