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bister

NOUN
  1. a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot

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  • There is a glossary, an essay on language, and a Romanichal word list I particularly like bístering mush 'judge, magistrate', among much other material. Languagehat.com: PATRIN.
  • In the ordinary course of events he would have said Len Forbister wasn't the kind of man to associate with him.
  • Those great eyes, smudged in with bister — aha, pools to drown love in! The Persian Boy
  • * 'I give and bequeath to my bister Botty the sum of 90/. at my dejith, iind Forty more at the birth of her tirst child. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
  • De los Reyes has created new bister on paper works, stainless steel sculptures and exquisite monochromatic paintings in this exciting follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2005 exhibition.
  • She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
  • Joanna could see the lines of sleeplessness on his face beneath a thick coating of rice powder and rouge; the dark rings of bister and fatigue made the queer eyes even paler. The Silent Tower
  • Isbister, feeling that his unsupported talk was losing vigour, suggested that they should reascend the steep and return towards When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Deerness farmer, and islands councillor, Jim Foubister bought the structure and plans to re-erect it on his farm next year.
  • She had remarked that Francois 'forehead was stained or dyed of a bister color, his eyes were bloodshot and encircled with blue lines, his lips marked with furrows, like the impression which burning sulphur leaves on living flesh. The Forty-Five Guardsmen
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