bile

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.uncountableusually

Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.uncountableusually

Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.uncountableusually

• I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.

A boil (kind of swelling).obsolete

Pronunciation spelling of boil.alt-ofpronunciation-spelling

• We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]