Bile vs Bice - What's the difference?
bile | bice |
(biochemistry) 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.
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Walter Scott, title=The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1616, author=Alexander Roberts, title=A Treatise of Witchcraft, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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. }}
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
A cobalt blue pigment.
As nouns the difference between bile and bice
is that bile is 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 while bice is a pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.bile
English
(wikipedia bile)Etymology 1
Mid 16th century, via (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)citation
citation