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ving 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, to the last extremity, however calamitous.

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides.

The female salmon in the spawning season.

obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]

r. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. -- Blue water, the open ocean. -- To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected. -- True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically,…

A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

st. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.

ch the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

y, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage Etym: [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosp…

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

A xassal or serf; a slave. [Obs. or Archaic]

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.