bitter

BIT'TER, adjective 1. 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. Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.5. Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.6. Afflicted; distressed.The Egyptians made their lives bitter Exodus 1:14.7. Hurtful; very sinful.Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jeremiah 2:19.8. Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23:2. Jeremiah 6:26.BIT'TER, noun A substance that is bitter [See bitter ]BIT'TER, noun [See Bitts.] In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts.Bitter-end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board, when the ship rides at anchor