BILIOUS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or pertaining to the bile.

2.
a.

Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with and excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

3.
a.

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." Macaulay. Bilious temperament. See Temperament.

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