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bilious Adjective 1. nauseous; sick: a bilious attack 2. Informal bad-tempered; irritable: the regime's most persistent and bilious critic 3. (of a colour) harsh and offensive [Latin biliosus full of bile]
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| Below the hat was a lean, long, sallow face, deeply pitted with the smallpox, and characterized, very remarkably, by eyes of two different colors -- one bilious green, one bilious brown, both sharply intelligent. Naseby appeared, with stooping shoulders and a heavy, bilious countenance, languidly rising to the trot. "He is a nervous, bilious subject," said Larrey, "and will not recover. |
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