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scibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characteriz…

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

In a choleric manner; angrily.

Resembling cholera.

The precursory symptoms of cholera.

Choleriform.

Cold; chilly. Bailey. Algid cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.

tle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

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

ung person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

Bile; choler. [Obs.] Chaucer.

riety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus. -- Comma butterfly (Zoöl.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under si…

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles. Harvey.

A figure o Must I give way and room to your rash choler Shall I be frighted when a madman stares Shak.

instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. Locke. But quench the choler you foment in vain. Dryden. Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. Southey.

Smoky; hot; choleric.

Choler; fretfulness; passion.