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Bittor Bittour :: Bittor Bittour (n.) The bittern.

Apocynin :: Apocynin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum).

Limonin :: Limonin (n.) A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange and lemon seeds..

Santonin :: Santonin (n.) A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass..

Imbittering :: Imbittering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbitte.

Cocaine :: Cocaine (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain..

Harmaline :: Harmaline (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts..

Olivin :: Olivin (n.) A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite..

Felonwort :: Felonwort (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

Vicious :: Vicious (a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.

Calumba :: Calumba (n.) The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic..

Mudarin :: Mudarin (n.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar..

Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara..

Daphnin :: Daphnin (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.

Cinchona :: Cinchona (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

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..

Amarine :: Amarine (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds..

Yellowwort :: Yellowwort (n.) A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow..

Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy..

Snakewood :: Snakewood (n.) An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent..

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