bile

Meanings

Plural: biles

Noun

• a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
• 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.
• Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
• A boil (kind of swelling).

Verb

• Pronunciation spelling of boil.

Synonyms

;, bili-, chole-, gall