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m.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia. -- To the bitter end…

the butterbump or bittern.

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 Spæt'lum.

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

nese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

ndians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

ure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.

Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.

Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

ho blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

o, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." Shak. For what is glory but the blaze of fame Milton.

sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.

seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. M. Green.

To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell. Arbuthnot.