BITCH
BITCH, noun1. The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.2. A name of reproach for a woman.
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BITE
BITE, verb transitivepreterit tense bit; participle passive bit, bitten.1. To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with ...
BITER
BI'TER, noun One who bites; that which bites; a fish apt to take bait.1. One who cheats or defrauds.
BITERNATE
BITERN'ATE, adjective [Latin bis and ternus, three.] In botany, doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.
BITING
BI'TING, participle present tense Seizing, wounding, or crushing with the teeth; pinching, paining, causing to smart with cold; reproaching with severity, or treating sarcastica...
BITINGLY
BI'TINGLY, adverb In a sarcastic or jeering manner.
BITLESS
BIT'LESS, adjective Not having a bit or bridle.
BITMOUTH
BIT'MOUTH, noun [bit and mouth.] The bit, or that part of a bridle which is put in a horse's mouth.
BITTACLE
BIT'TACLE, noun The box for the compasses and lights on board a ship. [See Binacle.]
BITTEN
BIT'TEN, participle passive of bite. bit'tn. Seized or wounded by the teeth; cheated.
BITTER
BIT'TER, adjective1. Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. Hebrews 1:1.3. Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.4. Sha...
BITTER-GOURD
BIT'TER-GOURD, noun [bitter and gourd.] A plant, a species of Cucumis, called Colocynthis, Colocynth, Coloquintada. The fruit is of the gourd kind, having a shell inclosing a bi...
BITTER-SALT
BIT'TER-SALT, noun Epsom salt.
BITTER-SPAR
BIT'TER-SPAR, noun Rhombspar, a mineral that crystallizes in rhomboids. It is the crystallized variety of magnesian limestone.
BITTER-SWEET
BIT'TER-SWEET, noun [bitter and sweet.] A species of Solanum, a slender climbing plant, whose root, when chewed, produces first a bitter, then a sweet taste.
BITTER-WORT
BIT'TER-WORT, noun [bitter and wort.] The plant called gentian, Gentiana, which has a remarkable bitter taste.
BITTERISH
BIT'TERISH, adjective Somewhat bitter; bitter in a moderate degree.
BITTERISHNESS
BIT'TERISHNESS, noun The quality of being moderately bitter.
BITTERLY
BIT'TERLY, adverb With a bitter taste.1. In a severe manner; in a manner expressing poignant grief; as, to weep bitterly2. In a manner severely reproachful; sharply; severely; a...
BITTERN
BIT'TERN, noun A fowl of the grallic order, the Ardea stellaris, a native of Europe. This fowl has long legs and neck, and stalks among reeds and sedge, feeding upon fish. It ma...
BITTERNESS
BIT'TERNESS, noun [from bitter.] A bitter taste; or rather a quality in things which excites a biting disagreeable sensation in the tongue.1. In a figurative sense, extreme enmi...
BITTERS
BIT'TERS, noun A liquor in which bitter herbs or roots are steeped; generally a spirituous liquor, the bitter cause of intemperance, of disease, and of premature death!
BITTERVETCH
BIT'TERVETCH, noun [bitter and vetch.] A species of Ervum, or lentil, cultivated for fodder.1. A genus of plants, known by the generic name Orobus, remarkable for their beautifu...
BITTOUR
BIT'TOUR, or BIT'TOR, noun The bittern.
BITTS
BITTS, nounplural [from the same root as bite.] A frame of two strong pieces of timber fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables, when she ...
BITUME
BITU'ME, noun Bitumen, so written for the sake of the rhyme.
BITUMEN
BIT'UMENBITU'MEN, noun [Latin] This name is used to denote various inflammable substances, of a strong smell, and of different consistencies, which are found in the earth. There...