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Bitter
BIT'TER, a.
1. Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.
2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. Heb 1.
3. Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.
4. Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.
5. Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.
6. Afflicted; distressed.
The Egyptians made their lives bitter. Exo 1.
7. Hurtful; very sinful.
Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jer 2.
8. Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23. Jer 6:31.
BIT'TER, n. A substance that is bitter. [See Bitter.]
BIT'TER, n. [See Bitts.] In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Bitter-end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
bitter appears in definitions for these words:
Absinthium Acerb Acrid Acridness Acrimonious Acrimoniously Acritude Allay Almond Amaritude Amber-seed Ammonia Asparagus Astringency Avocado Badge Balm Barbadoes-cherry Bdellium Beer Benzoic Betle Bile Bitter Bitter-gourd Bitter-sweet Bitter-wort Bitterish Bitterishness Bitterly Bittern Bitterness Bitters Bittour Blessed Boom Bump Butter-bump Camomile Camphor Cassavi Cat-salt Cerrial Cerrus Chard Cherry Colocynth Colombo Coloquintida Complain Complaint Consequence Copaiba Cry Cumin Daphnate Daphnin Delphia Disembitter Elaterium Envenom Exacerbate Fend Frankincense Galban Gall Gallless Gally Gentian Ginseng Heathpea Hematin Horehound Imbitter Inveigh Inveighing Keen Keenly Keenness Lord Lupine Malignancy Mild Misgovern Muriate Myrrh Nippingly Niter Opium Opobalsam Peruvian Picromel Picrotoxin Poignant Quib Rend Retain Root Rosemary Sanders Sarcastic Sauce Scammony Scorn Scurvy-grass Smart Snakewood Strychnia Sweet T Tansy Taste Taunt Tauntingly Tinge Turmeric Turn Ulmin Virulence Virulent Virulently Wormwood
Absinthium Acerb Acrid Acridness Acrimonious Acrimoniously Acritude Allay Almond Amaritude Amber-seed Ammonia Asparagus Astringency Avocado Badge Balm Barbadoes-cherry Bdellium Beer Benzoic Betle Bile Bitter Bitter-gourd Bitter-sweet Bitter-wort Bitterish Bitterishness Bitterly Bittern Bitterness Bitters Bittour Blessed Boom Bump Butter-bump Camomile Camphor Cassavi Cat-salt Cerrial Cerrus Chard Cherry Colocynth Colombo Coloquintida Complain Complaint Consequence Copaiba Cry Cumin Daphnate Daphnin Delphia Disembitter Elaterium Envenom Exacerbate Fend Frankincense Galban Gall Gallless Gally Gentian Ginseng Heathpea Hematin Horehound Imbitter Inveigh Inveighing Keen Keenly Keenness Lord Lupine Malignancy Mild Misgovern Muriate Myrrh Nippingly Niter Opium Opobalsam Peruvian Picromel Picrotoxin Poignant Quib Rend Retain Root Rosemary Sanders Sarcastic Sauce Scammony Scorn Scurvy-grass Smart Snakewood Strychnia Sweet T Tansy Taste Taunt Tauntingly Tinge Turmeric Turn Ulmin Virulence Virulent Virulently Wormwood
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