bile /baɪl/ noun4 •A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. •Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. •Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. — 1890 •(no longer used) A boil (kind of swelling). formsbiles