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Cat-salt :: Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine..

Rot :: Rot (n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below..

Podophyllin :: Podophyllin (n.) A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

Aloin :: Aloin (n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

Wrightine :: Wrightine (n.) A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine..

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

Galbanum :: Galbanum (n.) A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish..

Quassia :: Quassia (n.) The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer..

Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Synapticulae :: Synaptase (n.) A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin..

Lupulin :: Lupulin (n.) The fine yellow resinous powder found upon the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle..

Kagu :: Kagu (n.) A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern..

Scillitin :: Scillitin (n.) A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances..

Asper :: Asper (a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.

Hickory :: Hickory (n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter..

Gall :: Gall (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder..

Yellowwort :: Yellowwort (n.) A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow..

Bitterful :: Bitterful (a.) Full of bitterness.

Bitters :: Bitters (n. pl.) A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped..

Exasperate :: Exasperate (a.) Exasperated; imbittered.

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