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Acerbity :: Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain..

Virulency :: Virulency (n.) Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.

Acrimony :: Acrimony (n.) Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners..

Bumble :: Bumble (v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern..

Wormwood :: Wormwood (n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.

Bumble :: Bumble (n.) The bittern.

Butterbump :: Butterbump (n.) The European bittern.

Bittern :: Bittern (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species..

Bump :: Bump (v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom..

Acerbity :: Acerbity (n.) Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit..

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

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

Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..

Gall :: Gall (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

Bittor Bittour :: Bittor Bittour (n.) The bittern.

Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.

Bump :: Bump (n.) The noise made by the bittern.

Bittering :: Bittering (n.) A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..

Booming :: Booming (n.) The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns..

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