bile Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
    gall.

WordNet

Bile noun
Etymology
L. bilis: cf. F. bile.
Definitions
  1. (Physiol.) 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
Etymology
OE. byle, bule, bele, AS. ble, bl; skin to D. buil, G. beule, and Goth. ufbauljan to puff up. Cf. Boil a tumor, Bulge.
Definitions
  1. A boil. Obs. or Archaic

Webster 1913