bistephanic (bistefanik)

[ = Sw. bister, bister, lón, and boiled half an an hour; after standing to settle, and while hot, the clearer part of the fluid must be poured off to remove the salts, and the sediment (which is bister) evaporated to dryne . It has been much used as a watercolor, particularly by the old masters, for tinting drawings and shading sketches, before India ink came into general use for such work. In oil it dries very slowly. II. a . Of the color of bister; blackish-brown. bistered, bistred (bis'terd), a . [ bister , bis tre, + -ed2.] Of the color of bister; swarthy; browned. The beak that crowned the bistred face Betrayed the mould of Abraham's race. 566 upon a medieval fortification-wall; a bartizan: sometimes equivalent to barbican1. See cut under bartizan. bisulct (bi's ulk), a. [