Crossword clues for bister
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
bister
n. (alternative spelling of bistre English)
WordNet
bister
n. a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot [syn: bistre]
Wikipedia
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.