Meanings (ES + gloss)
biliar • biliario
Resembling bile, especially in color.
Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper, Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed To show his bilious face, go purge himself, In emulation of her vestal whiteness.
His complexion was pale, not of that deadly pallor which is a kind of neutral beauty, but of a bilious, yellow hue; his colorless hair was short and scarcely extended beyond the ci…
bilioso
Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. You would not think it to look at him, but he is bilious—Mr. Cole is very bilious.
atrabiliario • atrabilioso • colérico • intranquillo • iracundo
Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows, pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked in La Samaritaine […]
The glorified spirit of a great statesman and philosopher dawdling, like a bilious old Nabob at a watering-place, over quarterly reviews and novels—dropping in to pay long calls—ma…
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