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The bittern. Dryden.

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.

Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

Producing bitumen. Kirwan.

The process of bituminizing. Mantell.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a…

A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.

A sword cutler. [Obs.]

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

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Inflammation of the eyelids. -- Bleph`a*rit"ic (#), a.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.