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BIT'TER, a.

1. Sharp, or biting to the taste acrid like wormwood.

2. Sharp cruel severe as bitter enmity. Hebrews 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. Exodus 1

7. Hurtful very sinful.

Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jeremiah 2

8. Mournful distressing expressive of misory as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23; Jeremiah 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.