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Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.
Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.
Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
To make bitter.
A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
the butterbump or bittern.
Full of bitterness.
A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
Somewhat bitter.
A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).
In a bitter manner.
The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.