bile

  1. Noun.  (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. Noun.  bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. Noun.  Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

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