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the butterbump or bittern.

Full of bitterness. [Obs.]

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.

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.

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. The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.…

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

inaceous 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 Spæt'lum.

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiæfolia); Roman worm wood. Gray.

A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.

A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The bittern. Dryden.

f 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.

Bitumen. [Poetic] May.

Smeared with bitumen. [R.] "The hatches caulked and bitumed." Shak.