Bittern

Definitions

1. A town in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
2. Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.
3. The liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine).
   countable, uncountable
4. The saline substance added to soy milk to coagulate it as a primary step in the production of tofu.
   countable, uncountable
5. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and […] is known by the name⟳ of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie⟳ on the surface.”

“Now we add⟳ the bittern.”

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