Word Meanings - BITTERNUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The swamp hickory . Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• SHELLBARK
  A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
• SHELLY
  Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.
• SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
  See LAC
• BITTERWOOD
  A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• BITTERISH
  Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.
• BITTERN
  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
• BITTERFUL
  Full of bitterness.
• SWAMP
  1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties. 2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
• BITTER
  AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
• SHELLED
  Having a shell.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• UNSHELL
  To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
• EGGSHELL
  A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. (more info) 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
• FROGSHELL
  One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• COCKLESHELL
  1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle. 2. A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.
• TURBAN-SHELL
  A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• SHELL
  The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates,