Ile vs Bile - What's the difference?
ile | bile |
(obsolete) Ear of corn.
(obsolete) An aisle.
(obsolete) An isle.
(archaic) I’ll; contraction for I will or I shall
* "Why then Ile fit you." — T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
(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. }}
As a noun ile
is island.As an adverb bile is
even.ile
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m).Noun
(head)- (Ainsworth)
Etymology 2
See aisle.Noun
(head)Etymology 3
See isleNoun
(head)- (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Etymology 4
See I'llContraction
(head)Anagrams
* * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----bile
English
(wikipedia bile)Etymology 1
Mid 16th century, via (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
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