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One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste,

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One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose ; hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.

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  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.
• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• DISTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.
• OCCURRENT
  1. One who meets; hence, an adversary. Holland. 2. Anything that happens; an occurrence. These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world. Sir T. Browne.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• AMORPHOUS
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• SERIES
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• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• DISTRIBUTIVE
  A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
• SERIES TURNS
  The turns in a series circuit.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
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• REGARD
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• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• 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.
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  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• ENLARGEMENT
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• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
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  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
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  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
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  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.