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What does bile mean?

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Noun
  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. bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  3. 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. Eye dialect spelling of boil.
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