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Aloin :: Aloin (n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

Urechitoxin :: Urechitoxin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance..

Saccharin :: Saccharin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

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

Ilicin :: Ilicin (n.) The bitter principle of the holly.

Bumble :: Bumble (n.) The bittern.

Bitterish :: Bitterish (a.) Somewhat bitter.

Tirade :: Tirade (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

Exasperate :: Exasperate (v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity..

Asper :: Asper (a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.

Strychnos :: Strychnine (n.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina..

Cardamine :: Cardamine (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc..

Gally :: Gally (a.) Like gall; bitter as gall.

Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects..

Acrimony :: Acrimony (n.) Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners..

Xeronic :: Xeronic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride..

Lupinine :: Lupinine (n.) An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance..

Copaiva :: Copaiva (n.) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba..

Stub :: Stryphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste..

Wormwood :: Wormwood (n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.

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