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Webster 1913 Edition

Bile

Bile

,
Noun.
[L.
bilis
: cf. F.
bile
.]
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.
[OE.
byle
,
bule
,
bele
, AS.
b[GREEK]le
,
b[GREEK]l
; skin to D.
buil
, G.
beule
, and Goth.
ufbauljan
to puff up. Cf.
Boil
a tumor,
Bulge
.]
A boil.
[Obs. or Archaic]

Webster 1828 Edition

Bile

BILE

,
Noun.
[L. bilis.] A yellow bitter liquor, separated from the blood in the liver, collected in the pori biliarii and gall bladder, and thence discharged by the common duct into the duodenum.

BILE

,
Noun.
An inflamed tumor. [See Boil, the correct orthography.]

Definition 2024

bilé

bilé

See also: bile, bílé, -bile, and bile-

Ladino

Adverb

bilé ‎(Latin spelling)

  1. even

Etymology

Borrowing from Turkish bile ‎(“neither, even”).

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