Bilious
['bɪlɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress .
(adj.) relating to or containing bile .
Editor: Terence--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bile.
(a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.
(a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.
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Examples
- With such eyebrows, and a look so decidedly bilious, how was he to extract that money from the governor, of which George was consumedly in want? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For all bilious diseases or disorders arising from torpidity of the liver, dyspepsia, bilious headache, costiveness, sour stomach, jaundice, heartburn, nervousness, restlessness, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He looked suspiciously at us now out of yellow-shot, bilious eyes, and, without speaking or rising, he waved towards two chairs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Miss Sarah, said Joe, she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You would not think it to look at him, but he is biliousMr. Cole is very bilious. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A few bilious Britons there were who would not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection was purely theoretical. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I find him accord with my digestion and my bilious system. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was a delicate, bilious-looking, interesting child of eleven years of age, with large, pensive black eyes, and thick black fringes to them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had been bilious, but rich men were often bilious, and therefore he had been persuading himself that he was a man of property. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She happened this afternoon to be specially bilious and morose--as much disposed to gore as any vicious mother of the herd. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These two men, of hard, bilious natures both, rarely came into contact but they chafed each other's moods. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not half so bilious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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