Lexicographical Neighbors of Bittor
Literary usage of Bittor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... see clee. clee, a claw ; ' Pied d'un cancre, the clee or claw of a crab ',
Cotgrave ; 'The clee of a bittor', ..."
2. Catholicon Anglicum: an English-Latin wordbook, dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... other forma of which were litter, bittor, ... a bittor.' Cotgrave. The bittern
is said to make its peculiar noise, which is called ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire by Egerton Leigh (1877)
"L. bittor, s.—A. Bittern (Chester Plays). The Bittern having disappeared from
Cheshire, bittor and the preceding synonym must naturally be obsolete. ..."
4. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins (1658)
"Of the bittor. 3. That Storks are to be found, and will only live in Republikes
or free States, is a pretty conceit to advance the opinion of popular ..."
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