an epithet given to all bodies of an opposite taste to sweetness. For the medical virtues of bitters, see MATERIA MEDICA.

a sea term, signifying any turn of the cable about the bits, so that the cable may be let out by little and little. And when the ship is stopped 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. See COLOCYNTHIS, BOTANY Index.

BITTER-Salt. See EPSOM-SALT.

BITTER-Sweet. See SOLANUM, BOTANY Index.