Word Meanings - BITTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

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• 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.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• 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.
• COMPOUND
  A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen. Note: Every definite chemical compound always contains the same elements, united in
• 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.
• ADULTERATOR
  One who adulterates or corrupts. Cudworth.
• 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.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• ADULTERATE
  adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who 1. To defile by adultery. Milton. 2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
• DISEMBITTER
  To free from