Atrabilious

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Atrabilious \At`ra*bil"ious\, a.
     Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. --Dunglision.
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           A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. --Lowell.
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           He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful.
                                                    --Froude.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  atrabilious
       adj : irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: {bilious},
             {dyspeptic}, {liverish}]