Definition of bittern

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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..

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Bitterful :: Bitterful (a.) Full of bitterness.
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..
Sunblink :: Sunbird (n.) The sun bittern.
Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.
Bitterbump :: Bitterbump (n.) the butterbump or bittern.
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) The common European bittern.
Bumble :: Bumble (n.) The bittern.
Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter..
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects..
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.
Bittern :: Bittern (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer..
Bump :: Bump (n.) The noise made by the bittern.
Ericius :: Ericius (n.) The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the Authorized Version is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine..
Acridness :: Acridness (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech..
Bittor Bittour :: Bittor Bittour (n.) The bittern.
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..
Bill :: Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
Butterbump :: Butterbump (n.) The European bittern.
Disimbitter :: Disimbitter (v. t.) To free from bitterness.
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