EGAVE

bile

About 6.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. noun Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
  4. noun A boil (kind of swelling).
  5. verb Pronunciation spelling of boil.

Similar words

gall biliary heart bladder venom poison sweat esculin billy slime

Often followed by

duct acids ducts salts acid and is in salt

Word family

biles

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