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Rue :: Rue (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.

Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.

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..

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..

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

Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects..

Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.

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

Boom :: Boom (n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming..

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

Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy..

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..

Bitternut :: Bitternut (n.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

Bill :: Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

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

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..

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..

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

Disimbitter :: Disimbitter (v. t.) To free from bitterness.

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