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.
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