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  • black
    [ Scots idem CSD] v.t. to blacken: Colly blacked the smoothing iron (White). Fire could black the pot (Exuma).
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  • bitterwood
    [OED, W3, DIE different sp.] n. 1. a shrub, Picramnia pentandra: 1905 (Shattuck 206) = BITTER ROOT, SNAKE ROOT 2.
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  • bitter-sweet
    [OED, W3 different sp.] n. 1. a plant, Duranta repens: 1905 (Shattuck 262). = PIGEON BERRY I (Black) 2. the
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  • bitters tea
    [Car.; cf. BITTERS] n. a medicinal infusion: Mama did used to make me drink bitters tea when I catch a
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  • bitters
    [OED, bitter medicines generally] n. 1. a particular bush (sp?) whose leaves are boiled by the midwife as a tonic
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  • bitter root, bitter bush
     [W3, WE different sp.] n. a plant, Picramnia pentandra, used medicinally: 1920 (Britton 210). = SNAKE ROOT, BITTERWOOD (San Sal.)
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  • bitter orange
    /bíta oríynj/ n. the Seville orange, Citrus bigaradia: 1889 Bitter orange. . . used for marmelades, candied orange peel, and
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  • biting ants
    [W. Car.; cf. ANTS] n. 1. a small black ant (sp?) which bites fiercely: You can't go barefeet there—i's too
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  • biter
    [cf. OED nipper idem; cf. also Haitian dan (cf. Fr. dent tooth) idern HCEFDI n. the pincers of a crab
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  • bite
    v. 1. [DHS idem] to swindle; to deceive in trading. (White) 2. [Car.; in many Bantu languages, the words for
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