Meaning
1. Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.
2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. Heb 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. Exo 1.
7. Hurtful; very sinful.
Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jer 2.
8. Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23. Jer 6:31.
BIT'TER, n. A substance that is bitter. [See Bitter.]
BIT'TER, n. [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.
