Definition of "bile" in English

noun

1. 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.

2. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

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

noun

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.