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bière anglaise
, bière amère
, amer
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Bitter
- (v. t.) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
- (n.) Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
- (v. t.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.
- (v. t.) Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
- (v. t.) Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.
- (n.) AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
- (v. t.) Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
- (v. t.) To make bitter.
Synonyms:
Acerb, Acerbic, Acid, Acrid, Acrimonious, Biting, Bitingly, Bitterly, Bitterness, Blistering, Caustic, Sulphurous, Venomous, Virulent, Vitriolic,
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• Bitterwort
- (n.) The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
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• Bittern
- (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
- (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
- (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
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