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

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..

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

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.

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

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

Boom :: Boom (n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming..

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

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

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

Acerbity :: Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain..

Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Bumble :: Bumble (n.) The bittern.

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