Both Uses of
bilious
in
Jane Eyre
- He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.†
Chpt 1 *
- I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
-
(bilious) suffering indigestion
or:
irritable or bad-tempered
or:
ugly or disgusting -- especially of a shade of green
or:
relating to bile (a green digestive fluid)