Usually means: Historic humor, associated with melancholy.
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  1. black bile: Merriam-Webster
  2. black bile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. black bile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. black bile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. black bile: Vocabulary.com
  6. black bile: Wordnik
  7. black bile: Wiktionary
  8. black bile: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. black bile: Dictionary.com
  10. Black bile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. black bile: Rhymezone
  12. black bile: FreeDictionary.org
  13. black bile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. black bile: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. black bile: Legal dictionary

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  1. black bile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. black bile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. black bile: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (black bile)

noun:  (historical) One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen and to cause melancholy and sadness when present in excess.

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