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adjective

Bilious adj.

Of or pertaining to the bile.

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.

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob."

Bilious temperament. See Temperament.

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Etymology of 'Bilious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bilious" Quotes from Famous Books

... ashen gray, and then dissolved the low-hung, distorted shadows a quarter of a mile inland on either hand into a forbidding row of unbroken forest backed by plain, morass, and distant hills untipped by slanting rays. Overhead a bleak ruin of clouds drifted; underneath the river ran, a bilious yellow. The whole country so far as the eye could range was unmarred by the hand of man, untracked save by the feet of the ...

— The Barrier • Rex Beach

... the former was Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin. Her husband, a shrewd determined man of obstinate bilious temperament, had been dead for ten years. He had been a provincial public prosecutor, noted in his own day as a successful man of business. He had received a fair education and had been to the university; but having been born ...

— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev

... lean, bilious-looking man, with a hard, pinched face and knit lips, approaching from one of the ...

— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed

... wasting a thought upon the man who waited in the front room. And yet how many of them would obviously, glaringly have been the better for his professional assistance. Dyspeptic men, anemic women, blotched faces, bilious complexions—they flowed past him, they needing him, he needing them, and yet the remorseless bar of professional etiquette kept them forever apart. What could he do? Could he stand at his own front ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

... short, weasely man of bilious temperament; still, he sufficed; and his death at the end of two years from whooping-cough only added to Mrs. Bradford's complacency. She came back home again to the Cottage, feeling as immeasurably superior to her unmarried sister as only a ...

— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

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