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bile

noun
/baɪl/

Etymology

From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”). Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).

  1. derived from bīlis — “bile”
  2. borrowed from bile

Definitions

  1. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in…

    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

    Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

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

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

    • I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A boil (kind of swelling).

    2. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

      • 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 […]

    3. A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at bile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA