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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.

To line with Babbitt metal.

A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

To free from

To free from bitterness.

To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.

The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.

Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies. Shak.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

Pinched or weakened by hunger. [Obs.] Milton.

To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.

One who, or that which, imbitters.

The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.

A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.

Of the nature of wormwood. "Absinthian bitterness." T. Randolph.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.