Pronunciation
- IPA: /baɪl/
bile (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) 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.
- French: bile, fiel
- German: Galle
- Italian: fiele
- Portuguese: fel, bile, bílis
- Russian: желчь
- Spanish: bilis, hiel
- French: bile
- Russian: желчь
bile (plural biles)
- (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
bile (biles, present participle biling; past and past participle biled)
- Eye dialect spelling of boil#English|boil.
- 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy (page 130)
- 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 […]
- 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy (page 130)
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