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Bister

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.

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bister

n. (alternative spelling of bistre English)

WordNet
bister

n. a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot [syn: bistre]

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Bister

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/ French condiment company

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.