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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (biochemistry) 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. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
  3. bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

Exempel

  • I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.
  • He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

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