Bile
Bile ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Latin bilis: compare French bile.]
1.
(Physiology) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
2.
Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. — Prescott
The ancients considered the bile to be the “humor” which caused irascibility.
Bile , noun
[Old English byle, bule, bele, Anglo-Saxon bīle, bīl; skin to Dutch buil, German beule, and Gothic ufbauljan to puff up. Compare Boil a tumor, Bulge.]
A boil. [Obsolete or Archaic]