bitter1 (biter)

and n. [ IMG:content-2118.png:[blocks in formation] Stream, as the eyes of those that love us close. Bryant , The Ages, i. Bitter ale, bitter beer. See ale. - Bitter-almond oil. See almond -oil. Bitter ash, bark, cucumber, etc. See the nouns. - Bitter principles, a term applied to certain products arising from the action of nitric acid upon animal and vegetable matters, and having an intensely bitter taste. Very many plants contain peculiar, often crystallizable, compounds, having a bitter taste, which are often doubtle the active medicinal principle of the vegetable 568 in which they occur. The term is now restricted to the brown amorphous bitter extract, generally not of definite composition, obtained from many plants by boiling in water, evaporating to dryne , and treating with alcohol to remove resin, etc. - To the bitter end, to the last and direst extremity; to death itself. Syn. 3. Grievous, distre ing, afflictive, poignant. II. n. 1. That which is bitter; bitterne . Hi no conne deme [judge] betuene zuete [sweet] and byter . Ayenbite of Inwit , p. 82. The sick man hath been offended at the wholesome bit Scott, Abbot, I. 55. ter of the medicine. Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. Byron, Childe Harold, i. 82. Specifically-2. A bitter medicine, as a bitter bark or root, or an infusion made from it. See bitters. bitter1 (bit'er), v. t. [ Would not horse-aloes bitter it [beer] as well? Wolcot (P. Pindar).