Bitter Spar - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bitter sparBitter spar
A common name of dolomite so called because it contains magnesia the soluble salts of which are bitter See Dolomite...
dolomite
A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions It occurs in distinct crystals and in extensive beds as a compact limestone often crystalline granular either white or clouded It includes much of the common white marble Also called bitter spar...
Derbyshire spar
A massive variety of fluor spar found in Derbyshire England and wrought into vases and other ornamental work...
Shiver spar
A variety of calcite so called from its slaty structure called also slate spar...
Bitterful
Full of bitterness...
Bittering
A bitter compound used in adulterating beer bittern...
Bitterly
In a bitter manner...
Bitterness
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...
Bitters
A liquor generally spirituous in which a bitter herb leaf or root is steeped...
Colocynth
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber Citrullus colocynthis or Cucumis colocynthis an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon coloquintida It comes in white balls is intensely bitter and a powerful cathartic Called also bitter apple bitter cucumber bitter gourd...
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