Word Meanings - BITTERWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• 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.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• JAMAICA
  One of the West India is islands. Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. -- Jamaica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose ,
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• 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.
• INDIAN
  1. A native or inhabitant of India. 2. One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
• 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.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.