choler (orig.=bile, one of the ‘humours’; 1 cf. ‘These thynges folowyng do purge color: Fumytory, Centory, wormewod . . . Reuberbe’, Andrew Borde's ‘Dyetary’, (1542)
1.
bilious disorder
R2 I. i. 153
“Let's purge this
choler,”
Ham. III. ii. 320: in
both passages with quibble on sense 2
2.
anger (freq.); with a
pun on ‘collar’ 1H4 II. iv. 361, Rom. I. i. 4.