Both Uses of
bilious
in
Middlemarch
- Mr. Wrench was a small, neat, bilious man, with a well-dressed wig: he had a laborious practice, an irascible temper, a lymphatic wife and seven children; and he was already rather late before setting out on a four-miles drive to meet Dr. Minchin on the other side of Tipton, the decease of Hicks, a rural practitioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction.†
Chpt 3
- This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(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)