What does "bile" mean?
Bile: Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott. Note: The ancients considered the bile to be the "humor" which caused irascibility.
Additional senses
- 2.A boil. [Obs. or Archaic]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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