Bitter

bit'6r, adj., biting or acrid to the taste shaip painful — any substance having a bitter taste —adj. Bitrerish.—adv. Bitterly. — n Bitt'eme as. TA.S. — bit an to bite Bittern, bit'ern, a bird of the heron family, said to have been named from the resemblance of its voice to the lowing of a bull. [M. E. bittour—Yv.—Low L. but or i us \brs taunts).] Bitters, bit£rz, n. 9 liquid prepared from bitter herbs or roots, and used as a stomachic. Bitumen, bi-tiVmen, a name applied to various ffttc, f me, h$r mine Blackthorn inflammable mineral substances, as naphtha, petroleum, asphaltum,—-adj. Bitu'tninoufl. 1 Bivalve, bl'Valv, «. an animal having a shell in two valves or parts, like the oyster: a seed ve el of like kind. adj having two valves — adj. Bivalv'nlar. [L. bis, twice, valva a valve.] Bivouac, biVoo-ak, «. the lying out all night of soldiers in the open air. v.t. to pa the night in the open air \—pr.f. biv'ouacking pa.p. biv'ouacked. [Fr. —Ger. bcnvachen, to watch beside — bet, by, 7vacken, to watch.)