BITTERN
\bˈɪtən], \bˈɪtən], \b_ˈɪ_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of BITTERN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
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A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
By Oddity Software
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The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
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A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A bird of the heron family, said to have been named from the resemblance of its voice to the lowing of a bull.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [English] A wading-bird of Europe, related to the heron family. It makes a singular noise, which has been thought to resemble the Jowing of a bull.
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n. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted;—a very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, &c.
