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A water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
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bister
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Wikipedia
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Bister may refer to: Bister, Switzerland , a village in the canton of Valais Bistre , a pigment and color Bicester , Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Bister, "abrupt", "stringent" or "austere" in Swedish Bister, "bed" in the Urdu language Bister, a Belgian / ...
WordNet
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n. a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot [syn: bistre ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bister \Bis"ter\, Bistre \Bis"tre\, n. [F. bistre a color made of soot; of unknown origin. Cf., however, LG. biester frowning, dark, ugly.] (Paint.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of bistre English)
Usage examples of bister.
If Bister were one of these fabulous apers – an Xik reconstructed by surgery and every available form of psycho-training to pass as a Confed man – that would explain a lot.
Framed in a tangled explosion of graying brown hair, his face was chalky with exhaustion, the wide gray eyes in their bistered hollows dilated with drugs.