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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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..
Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) 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..
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Bumble :: Bumble (v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern..
Boom :: Boom (n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming..
Gall :: Gall (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
Bump :: Bump (n.) The noise made by the bittern.
Rue :: Rue (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
Bitterbump :: Bitterbump (n.) the butterbump or bittern.
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) The common European bittern.
Bump :: Bump (v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom..
Virulency :: Virulency (n.) Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.
Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
Bill :: Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter..
Bittor Bittour :: Bittor Bittour (n.) The bittern.
Ginseng :: Ginseng (n.) A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness..
Acridness :: Acridness (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech..
Acerbity :: Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain..
Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.
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