an epithet given to all bodies of an opposite taste to sweetness. For the medical virtues of bitters, see Materia Medica, no 51.

term, signifying any turn of the cable about the bit, so as that the cable may be let out by little and little. And when a ship is flopped by a cable, she is said to be brought up by a bitter. Also that end of the cable which is wound about the bits is called the bitter end of the cable.

Bitter-Apple, in botany. See Colocynthis.

Bitter-Salt. See Epsom-Salt.

Bitter-Sweet, in botany. See Solanum.