bilelt (bil)

[Early mod. E. also byle, bile, byle (occasionally biel, beel, > E. beal, prop. a dial. form: see beal1 ), bula = Dan. bule, bugle, a swelling; ef. Icel. bola = Sw. böld = Dan. byld, a blain, a blister; ufbauljan, puff up: ef. bolll. Bile is the true E. form, still retained in the vernacular speech; but, owing to a confusion with the verb boil2 (or perhaps with the D. form buil, pron. nearly as E. boil ), the word has taken in mod. literary E. the corrupt form boil. See boill.] An inflamed tumor; a boil. See boill. bilateral ne (bi-late-ral-nes), n. [ bilateral +-ne .] The state or quality of being bilat- eral; bilateralism; in zoöl . , bilateral symmetry. bile2 (bil), n. [F. bile , bilis , bile, anger; In the Sycamore and the Vine we have a cleft type of leaf in which a decided bilateral ne of form co-exists with a decided bilateral ne of conditions. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 229. bilberry (bil ber"i), n.; pl. bilberries (-iz). The last form, if not simulated, is prob. right, [Formerly also spelled and bull - berry . atra (or nigra ) bilis, equiv. to Gr. μελαγχολία, black bile: see atrabile, melancholy.] 1. A yellow bitter liquid secreted by the liver and collected by the biliary ducts to be conveyed into the duodenum. Its most important constituents the bile-salts, sodium glycocholate and sodium tauro cholate, and the bile-pigments, bilirubin and biliverdin, with cholesterin. The bile renders the contents of the duodenum alkaline. It aids the emulsionizing of the fats, apparently by increasing the solubility of soaps, a ists the pa age of the fats through the intestinal walls, and stimulates peristalsis. Also called gall. 2. Figuratively, ill nature; peevishne ; bitterne of feeling: because the bile was fancied to be the seat of ill humor. Nothing appears to have stirred his bile so much at Yuste as the proceedings of some members of the board of trade at Seville. Pre scott . of several other plants, as bullweed , bullwort , bulrush . Cf. hart berry , another name for bil berry. But the relation of the equiv. Dan. bölle- bær , also simply bölle , whortleberry, to Dan. böll , a castrated bull (cf. Icel. boli = Norw. bol = E. bulll ), is not clear. The usual Dan. term for bull is tyr = Sw. tjur Icel. stjörr = E. steer. The name blaeberry is of different origin: see blaeberry .] 1. A shrub and its fruit, Vac- bile-cyst (bil's ist), n . In an at . , the gall-bladder. cinium Myrtillus . In Scotland the bilberry is usually bile-duct (bil'dukt), n. A duct or canal con- called blaeberry , from its blae or dark-blue color. See Vaccinium and whortleberry . 2. A name sometimes given in the United States to the fruit of the shad-bush, Amelan chier Can a dens is. - Bog-bilberry, Vaccinium uliginosum of the United States and Europe. - Dwarf bilberry, V. cæspitosum. - Jamaica bilberry, V. meridio nale. bilbol (bil'bō), n.; pl. bilboes or -bos (-bōz). [Early mod. E. also bilbow, bilboe, bilboa, prop. a sword of Bilbao (in E. formerly Bilboa ) in Black bile. See atrabile. bile3t, n. An obsolete form of bill1. bilection (bi-lek's hon), n. Same as bolection. One of the veying bile; a gall-duct. bile-pigment ile-pigment (bil'pigment), n. coloring matters in the bile. Bilirubin is the chief coloring matter in the bile of carnivorous animals and of man; biliverdin is the greenish pigment in the bile of herbivorous animals. A considerable number of other bile-pigments have been described, some of which are probably mixtures of pigments, and others oxidation or reduetion products not existing in the living body. bilestone (bil's ton), n. A biliary calculus or gallstone. IMG:content-2059.png:[blocks in formation]