Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.

Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. James 3:14.

Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.

Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.

Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.

Afflicted; distressed. The Egyptians made their lives bitter. Exodus 1:14.

Hurtful; very sinful. Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jeremiah 2:19.

Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23:2, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 31:15.

A substance that is bitter.

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.