Definition of bilious

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

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Atrabilious :: Atrabilious (a.) Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary.
Bilious :: Bilious (a.) Of or pertaining to the bile.
Atrabiliar :: Atrabiliar (a.) Melancholy; atrabilious.
Bilious :: Bilious (a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms..
Antibillous :: Antibillous (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
Adust :: Adust (a.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
Biliousness :: Biliousness (n.) The state of being bilious.
Bilious :: Bilious (a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.
Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament..
Atrabilarious :: Atrabilarious (a.) Affected with melancholy; atrabilious.
Atrabiliary :: Atrabiliary (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania..
Tabasheer :: Tabasheer (n.) A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases..
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