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A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
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n. pl.
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
a.
A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
n.
A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
n.
The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
n.
the butterbump or bittern.
n.
Anything which is bittersweet.
n.
The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
n. pl.
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
a.
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
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The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
v. t.
To make bitter.
n.
A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
a.
Somewhat bitter.
n.
A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum.
n.
A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.
a.
Full of bitterness.
n.
The bittern.
adv.
In a bitter manner.
n.
The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
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