bile
IPA: bˈaɪɫ
noun
- 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.
- Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
- Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
- (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of boil. [(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.]
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