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Virulency :: Virulency (n.) Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.

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

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

Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Amaritude :: Amaritude (n.) Bitterness.

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..

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

Bittering :: Bittering (n.) A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

Bump :: Bump (v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom..

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

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

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

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

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