Fel, fellis, n. gen. Plaut.Gall: bitternesse: griefe of minde.Gallinaceum fel.Cic.Vipereo felle tela lurida.Ouid.Iecur ardet siccato felle. Sen. Veneni felle sagitta armata.Virg.Felle suffusi, Bile suffusi, icterici. Plin. They that bee sicke of the iaundise.Sales suffusi felle.Ouid.Taunting or nipping scosses: bitter tauntes.Mordaci felle tincta spicula.Ouid. Fel terre. Vide CENTAVRIVM.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fel, fellis, n. [Gr. xo/los, gall; cf. Germ. Galle; Engl. gall], the gall-bladder, gall, bile (cf. bilis): jecur a dextra parte sub praecordiis: ex inferiore parte ei fel inhaeret, Cels. 4, 1; cf. Plin. 11, 37, 74, 191; 31, 10, 46, 119; Ov. M. 2, 777: gallinaceum, Cic. Div. 2, 12, 29: nigrum, Plin. 11, 37, 75, 193: piscis, Vulg. Tobiae, 6, 5.—In plur.: fella, Ser. Samm. 19, 333; Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 19; id. Tard. 1, 4 fin. al.—Poet.: hic vero Alcidae furiis exarserat atro Felle dolor, because the bile was regarded as the seat of rage, Verg. A. 8, 220.—B.Transf.1.Poisonous liquid, poison (poet.): vipereum, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 16; id. P. 1, 2, 18: sagitta armata felle veneni, Verg. A. 12, 857.—2. Fel terrae, a plant, the lesser centaury, the fumitory (Fumaria officinalis, Linn.), Plin. 25, 6, 31, 68.—II.Trop. (only in poets, whereas bilis is used in the trop. signif. also in good prose), bitterness, acrimony, animosity (syn.: bilis, stomachus, invidia, livor; odium): amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 70; cf.: corda felle sunt lita, id. Truc. 1, 2, 77: omnia jam tristi tempora felle madent, Tib. 2, 4, 11; Mart. 7, 25.