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Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.

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

Bitterbump :: Bitterbump (n.) the butterbump or bittern.

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

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

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

Bile :: Bile (n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile..

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

Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..

Bitterful :: Bitterful (a.) Full of 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..

Bump :: Bump (n.) The noise made by the bittern.

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

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..

Bittern :: Bittern (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species..

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

Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.

Bumble :: Bumble (n.) The bittern.

Booming :: Booming (n.) The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns..

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

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