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BITTERS

\bˈɪtəz], \bˈɪtəz], \b_ˈɪ_t_ə_z]\

Definitions of BITTERS

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Liquor in which herbs or roots are soaked.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

1. An alcoholic liquor in which bitter vegetable substances, quinine, gentian, or the like, have been steeped. 2. Bitter vegetable drugs, usually employed as tonics; such are quassia, gentian, cinchona, etc.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

A liquid prepared from bitter herbs or roots, and used as a stomachic.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

A liquor, generally spirituous, in which bitter herbs or roots have been steeped.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

A liquor, generally spirits, in which bitter herbs or roots have been steeped.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

Medicines for increasing the tone of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

PI. A bitter, vegetable liquid preparation designed as a tonic or appetizer.
An alcoholic liquor in which bitter vegetable substances have been steeped, as gentian or wormwood.
A group of plant principles chiefly marked by their bitter taste.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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