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Webster 1913 Edition

(bĭl′yŭs)

Adj.

[L.

biliosus

, fr.

bilis

bile.]

Of or pertaining to the bile.

Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile;

as, a

bilious

patient

; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile;

as,

bilious

symptoms

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.

“A bilious old nabob.”

Macaulay.

Bilious temperament

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Adj.

[L. biliosus, from bilis, the bile.]

Pertaining to bile; consisting or partaking of bile; caused by a redundancy, or bad state of the bile; as a bilious fever.