BIT'TER, a. 1. Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. Heb.1.3. Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.4. Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.5. Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.6. Afflicted; distressed.The Egyptians made their lives bitter. Ex.1.7. Hurtful; very sinful.Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jer.2.8. Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job.23. Jer.6.31.BIT'TER, n. A substance that is bitter. [See Bitter.] BIT'TER, n. [See Bitts.] In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter-end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board, when the ship rides at anchor. |
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