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Word Meanings - BITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

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  • RANCIDLY
    In a rancid manner.
  • BITE
    bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
  • SERIOUS
    1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
  • STERNFOREMOST
    With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • CRABBER
    One who catches crabs.
  • STERNUTATORY
    Sternutative. -- n.
  • STINGBULL
    The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
  • BITTERWEED
    A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • COAGULATE
    Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
  • STING RAY; STINGRAY
    Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
  • SHARPLY
    In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
  • EXACTOR
    One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
  • BITUME
    Bitumen. May.
  • EXACTING
    Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
  • STRICT
    Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • TURNINGNESS
    The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
  • STERNOHYOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
  • RE-TURN
    To turn again.
  • HOBIT
    A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • REHIBITION
    The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
  • WASTING
    Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • INHIBITORY
    Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • ARBITRESS
    A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
  • TRILOBITE
    Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
  • PERSISTING
    Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.

 

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