bile

/baɪl/ · noun

Meaning

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.
Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
A boil (kind of swelling).
(of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
To cook in boiling water.
(of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
(used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
(used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.

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