Bile
[baɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats.
Edited by Kathleen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.
(n.) A boil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gall.
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Definition
n. a thick bitter fluid secreted by the liver—yellow in man and carnivorous animals green in vegetable feeders: (fig.) ill-humour.—n. Bile′-duct the duct which conveys the bile from the liver and the gall-bladder to the small intestine.—adjs. Bil′iary belonging to or conveying bile; Bil′ious pertaining to or affected by bile.—adv. Bil′iously.
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Examples
- I never could do nothing with a pot but mend it or bile it--never had a note of music in me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Are you subject to bile, Wegg? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He felt empty and drained and exhausted from all of it and from them going and his mouth tasted of bile. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. Plato. The Republic.
- Joe pursued, somebody must keep the pot a biling, Pip, or the pot won't bile, don't you know? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Bile,' said Mr Boffin, blowing out the light in the lantern, shutting it up, and stowing it away in the breast of his coat as before. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then I began to catch crabs and soon I was just chopping along again with a thin brown taste of bile from having rowed too hard after the brandy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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