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Bittern   Listen
noun
Bittern  n.  
1.
The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
2.
A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.





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"Bittern" Quotes from Famous Books



... troops, instead of preserving neutrality, aided the Imperialists in putting down the insurrection in such ways as this. The British cruisers assumed that the Ti-Ping junks were pirates, because they captured Chinese vessels. The British ship Bittern and another steamer sank every vessel but two in a rebel fleet, and gave up the crew of one which they captured to be put to death. This is the description of another transaction of the same kind, ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke


Words linked to "Bittern" :   American bittern, heron, Ixobrychus exilis, Botaurus stellaris, European bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus


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