Webster's practical dictionaryA practical dictionary of the English language, giving the correct spelling, pronunciation and definitions of words based on the Unabridged dictionary of Noah Webster .. . Carpenters , bTt, V. ) To put round the bitts.—Bitts,. bitz, n. 2^1- A frame of timbers to hold a ships ca-bles. Bittacle, bitta-kl. n. The box for the compass onboard a ship. [See Binnacle.] Bitter, bitter, o. Having a peculiar, acrid, bitingtaste ; causing pain, smart, or distress ; character-ized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; mourntul;distressing: pitiable.—Bit^terish.
Webster's practical dictionaryA practical dictionary of the English language, giving the correct spelling, pronunciation and definitions of words based on the Unabridged dictionary of Noah Webster .. . Carpenters , bTt, V. ) To put round the bitts.—Bitts,. bitz, n. 2^1- A frame of timbers to hold a ships ca-bles. Bittacle, bitta-kl. n. The box for the compass onboard a ship. [See Binnacle.] Bitter, bitter, o. Having a peculiar, acrid, bitingtaste ; causing pain, smart, or distress ; character-ized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; mourntul;distressing: pitiable.—Bit^terish. «. Somewhat bit-ter. — Bitterishness, 7i. — Bitterly, adv. — Bitter-ness, ?(. — Bittern, -tern, n. The brine remainingin salt works alter the salt is concreted; avery bittercompound of quassia, eocculus indicus, etc. — Bit-ters, -terz, n. pi. Liquor, generally spirituous, inwhich bitter herbs or roots have Seen steeped.—Bitter-spar, -spar, n. A mineral consisting of car-bonate of lime and carbonate of magnesia, — thesoluble salts of the magnesia being l)itter. — Bit-ter-sweet, n. {Bot.) A climbing plant, whose root,when chewed, produces a bitter, then a sweet taste.— Bifterwort, -wert, H. {Bot.) Yellow gentian. Bittern, biftern, n. A wading bir
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