Black-bile
one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing gloominess.
Historical Examples
Gilbertus Anglicus Henry Ebenezer Handerson
noun
(archaic) one of the four bodily humours; melancholy See humour (sense 8)
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