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

Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter..

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..

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) The common European bittern.

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

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

Sunblink :: Sunbird (n.) The sun bittern.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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