| | bittern | (บิท'เทอน) n. ยกกาน้ำ, นกยาง |
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| | | bittern | (n) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | | bitterness | (n) a rough and bitter manner, Syn. tartness, acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, thorniness | | bitterness | (n) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste, Syn. bitter | | bitternut | (n) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts, Syn. bitter hickory, bitternut hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis |
| | Bittern | n. [ OE. bitoure, betore, bitter, fr. F. butor; of unknown origin. ] (Zool.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The common European bittern is Botaurus stellaris. It makes, during the brooding season, a noise called by Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming. The American bittern is Botaurus lentiginosus, and is also called stake-driver and meadow hen. See Stake-driver. [ 1913 Webster ] The name is applied to other related birds, as the least bittern (Ardetta exilis), and the sun bittern. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Bittern | n. [ From Bitter, a. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Bitterness | n. [ AS. biternys; biter better + -nys = -ness. ] 1. The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. [ 1913 Webster ] The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ] I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. [ 1913 Webster ] Thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Acts viii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy. [ 1913 Webster ] Looking diligently, . . . lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you. Heb. xii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Bitternut | n. (Bot.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | | นกกระยาง | (n) egret, See also: bittern, Syn. นกยาง, Count Unit: ตัว, Thai Definition: นกในวงศ์ Ardeidae ปากแหลม ขายาว ตัวสีขาว บางชนิดตัวสีดำ น้ำตาล เขียว ชอบหากินตามชายน้ำและทุ่งนา กินปลา แมลง และสัตว์น้ำขนาดเล็ก |
| | | | 恨み(P);憾み;怨み | [うらみ, urami] (n) (1) resentment; grudge; malice; bitterness; (2) (esp. 憾み) matter for regret; regret; (P) #14,112 [Add to Longdo] | | 苦痛 | [くつう, kutsuu] (adj-na, n, adj-no) pain; agony; bitterness; (P) #17,717 [Add to Longdo] | | 葦五位 | [よしごい, yoshigoi] (n) (uk) yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) [Add to Longdo] | | 悔しさ | [くやしさ, kuyashisa] (n) chagrin; bitterness; frustration; vexation; mortification; regret [Add to Longdo] | | 甘苦 | [かんく, kanku] (n) sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows [Add to Longdo] | | 甘酸 | [かんさん, kansan] (n) sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows [Add to Longdo] | | 苦さ | [にがさ, nigasa] (n) bitterness; bitter taste [Add to Longdo] | | 苦汁;滷汁;苦塩 | [にがり;にがしお(苦塩), nigari ; nigashio ( ku shio )] (n) bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine [Add to Longdo] | | 苦渋 | [くじゅう, kujuu] (n, vs, adj-no) bitterness; mortification; difficulty in understanding; distress; affliction; (P) [Add to Longdo] | | 苦味(P);苦み | [にがみ(P);くみ, nigami (P); kumi] (n, adj-no) bitterness; bitter taste; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
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