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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues. It occurs as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile. Also called icterus.
  2. n. A state or feeling of negativity or bitterness arising especially from envy or world-weariness.
  3. v. To affect with the discoloration of jaundice.
  4. v. To affect with the negativity or bitterness of jaundice. See Synonyms at bias.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, a morbid state characterized by the presence of bile-pigments in the blood, which gives rise to a yellow staining of the skin and the whites of the eyes and to a dark coloring of the urine. The stools are usually light in color, and there is more or less lassitude and loss of appetite. Xanthopsy, or yellow vision, occurs in some very rare instances. Also called icterus.
  2. n. Hence A state of feeling or emotion that colors the view or disorders the judgment, as jealousy, envy, and the like.
  3. To affect with jaundice.
  4. Hence To affect with prejudice or envy.
  5. n. Same as grasserie.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the feces, constipation, queasiness, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. Other causes include increased hemolysis and any liver disease. The discoloration is caused by accumulation of bilirubin in the body; bilirubin is normally excreted in bile to give feces their normal yellow-brown coloration.
  2. v. transitive To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the fæces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood.
  2. v. To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rough and bitter manner
  2. v. distort adversely
  3. v. affect with, or as if with, jaundice
  4. n. yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune ("yellow") + -isse ("-ice, '-ness'"). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus ("yellowish"), from galbus ("yellow"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Old French jaunice, yellowness, jaundice, from jaune, jalne, yellow, from Latin galbinus, yellowish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bokie "But the weary process of reform at the UN has left many jaundiced" -- I find it interesting jaundice is used in this sense Feb 9, 2009

  • Prolagus See also Jaundice people. Sep 2, 2008

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