Meanings
nounbiliaries pl (plural only)
- archaicpluralplural onlyA stomachache.
[…] the prudent housekeeper […] tells how her mistress has lain abed since dinner, and is sick of the biliaries.
1895, Frank Barrett, A Set of Rogues, page 2471 more example
Mistresses free of Arts, / Bachelors help with hearts, / And well-planned dinner-cartes / As their auxiliaries,— / Such water privilege / In this dead level age, / Might each blue devil edge / Out of one's biliaries!
1874, Punch, Or, The London Charivari, volume 67, page 75
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