Word Meanings - AMARINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• BITTERWOOD
  A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• BITTERISH
  Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.
• BITTERN
  1. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating
• BITTERFUL
  Full of bitterness.
• BITTER
  AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
• BITTER SPAR
  A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• BITTERNUT
  The swamp hickory . Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
• BITTERROOT
  A plant allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• HOLOCRYSTALLINE
  Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.