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AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

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

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.

To free from

To free from bitterness.

To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.