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

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

Bitternut :: Bitternut (n.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

Bumble :: Bumble (v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern..

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

Disimbitter :: Disimbitter (v. t.) To free from bitterness.

Bittern :: Bittern (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains..

Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter..

Gall :: Gall (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

Acridness :: Acridness (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech..

Acerbity :: Acerbity (n.) Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit..

Ginseng :: Ginseng (n.) A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness..

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

Bittern :: Bittern (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer..

Sunblink :: Sunbird (n.) The sun bittern.

Butterbump :: Butterbump (n.) The European bittern.

Rue :: Rue (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) The common European bittern.

Cat-salt :: Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine..

Bill :: Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

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