Noun: bile
Sample Sentences
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I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. [1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:]
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He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head. [1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:]
Nouns inflected like bile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).
2. Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”). See: Latin Nouns '
bīlis'.