Word Meanings - BITTERSPAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.

• Bittersweet
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Commonitory
  Calling to mind; giving admonition.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Bitterweed
  A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Commonly
  Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Bitterwood
  A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Commonness
  State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
• BITTERSPAR
  A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• Bitterwort
  The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.

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