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Principle in artificial intelligence
The bitter lesson is the observation in artificial intelligence that, in the long run, general approaches that scale with available computational power
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Computer scientist
foundational to the AI boom. In a 2019 essay, Sutton proposed the "bitter lesson", which criticized the field of AI research for failing to learn that
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Language models designed for reasoning tasks
The development of reasoning models illustrates Richard S. Sutton's "bitter lesson" that scaling compute typically outperforms methods based on human-designed
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Explicit material produced by generative AI
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American artificial intelligence company
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American singer, dancer, actress (1935–2010)
January 3, 1959, Provine appeared as Laura Winfield in the episode "The Bitter Lesson" of the NBC Western series Cimarron City. Laura Winfield is a newly
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Image-generation models developed by OpenAI
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Video-generating LLM (2024–2026)
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2024 controversy
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Taylor Swift deepfake pornography controversy
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AI software development optimisation
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AI-assisted software development
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AI benchmark testbed for mathematical problem solving
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FrontierMath
Avatar-generating machine learning model
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HeyGen
Chinese text-to-video model
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Concept in artificial intelligence
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Recursive_self-improvement
Marketing tactic
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2023 letter calling for a pause on AI system training
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Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
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Indian politician (born 1963)
25–26, JSTOR 44166817 Kaushik Deka (24 June 2020). "Family Matters: Bitter lesson for Gandhis in Manipur". India Today. Retrieved 1 June 2025. "Y Khemchand
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Open letter about extinction risk from AI
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Statement_on_AI_Risk
Intelligence of machines
workers". Fortune. Retrieved 21 October 2025. Tarnoff, Ben (4 August 2023). "Lessons from Eliza". The Guardian Weekly. pp. 34–39. Kühne, Rinaldo; Peter, Jochen
Artificial_intelligence
Period of rapid progress in AI
the US Economy". Federal Reserve. Retrieved 16 June 2026. "The AI boom: lessons from history". The Economist. 2 February 2023. Lohr, Steve (30 November
AI_boom
AI chatbot image controversy
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View that artificial intelligence should become humanity's successor
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American artificial intelligence company
2024. Habeshian, Sareen (April 10, 2025). "OpenAI countersues Elon Musk in bitter legal battle". Axios. Archived from the original on April 11, 2025. Retrieved
OpenAI
Hypothesis that human replicas elicit revulsion
Vinayagamoorthy, V. Steed, A. & Slater, M. (2005). Building Characters: Lessons Drawn from Virtual Environments. Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science:
Uncanny_valley
Type of AI with wide-ranging abilities
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Artificial general intelligence
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Artificial intelligence program by DeepMind
Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-11-30. Jeremy Kahn, Lessons from DeepMind's breakthrough in protein-folding A.I. Archived 2022-04-08
AlphaFold
Ongoing theorised stock market bubble
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Text-to-video model
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Phenomenon in which AI achievements are reclassified as non-intelligent
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AI_effect
English footballer (born 2003)
2021). "Ruthless Borussia Dortmund teach RB Leipzig's Nagelsmann a bitter lesson in German Cup triumph". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on
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AI that generates content
June 11, 2023. Retrieved June 11, 2023. Tarnoff, Ben (August 4, 2023). "Lessons from Eliza". The Guardian Weekly. pp. 34–39. Zhou, Viola (April 11, 2023)
Generative_AI
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List of programming languages for artificial intelligence
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2022 AI-generated artwork
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Théâtre_D'opéra_Spatial
Subfield of artificial intelligence
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Neuro-symbolic_AI
Artificial intelligence systems that perceive and act in the physical world
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Physical artificial intelligence
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Software to detect AI-generated content
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Artificial intelligence content detection
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1991 murder in Pennsylvania, US
from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2012. "A Bitter Lesson for Lancaster County". LA Times. November 10, 1997. Retrieved December
Murder_of_Laurie_Show
Artificial intelligence research collective
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EleutherAI
Suite of artificial intelligence tools developed by Apple Inc.
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Apple_Intelligence
Chatbot developed by Microsoft
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Tay_(chatbot)
Image-generating machine learning model
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Midjourney
Processing of natural language by a computer
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Natural_language_processing
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Artificial intelligence controversies
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Genre of art
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AI_art
Playable AI-generated Minecraft clone
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Concept of open-source software applied to AI
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Open-source artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence research company
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Preamble_(company)
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List of artificial intelligence projects
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Publishing digital resources with their source files
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Open_source
Artificial intelligence division of Meta Platforms
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Meta_AI
Explicit material applying deepfake technology
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Deepfake_pornography
2023 film by İlker Çatak
under a magnifying glass". while NDR wrote, "The Teachers' Lounge is a bitter lesson in self-righteousness. There is something both comical and tragic about
The_Teachers'_Lounge
AI model that developer a super-human sorting algorithm
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AlphaDev
2023 business action
Retrieved November 21, 2023. Klein, Ezra (November 22, 2023). "The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November
Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI
Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_OpenAI
French artificial intelligence company
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H_(company)
Interactions with artificial intelligence
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Human–AI_interaction
Test of a machine's ability to imitate human intelligence
doi:10.1145/141420.141423, S2CID 27079507 Shieber, Stuart M. (1994), "Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test", Communications of the ACM, 37 (6): 70–78
Turing_test
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Regulation of artificial intelligence in the United States
Regulation_of_artificial_intelligence_in_the_United_States
Subset of artificial intelligence
language models. Learners can also be disappointed by "learning the wrong lesson". A toy example is that an image classifier trained only on pictures of
Machine_learning
Thought experiment on artificial intelligence
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Chinese_room
Chinese-born Canadian educator (born 1976)
July 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2026. Wei, Xiaohan (11 June 2022). "Bitter Lessons From a Chinese Education Reformer". Sixth Tone. Archived from the original
Jiang_Xueqin
Philosophical experiment
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China_brain
diverse knowledge in different ways," writes Pamela McCorduck. "[T]he great lesson from the 1970s was that intelligent behavior depended very much on dealing
History of artificial intelligence
History_of_artificial_intelligence
Artificial intelligence that plays Go
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AlphaGo_Zero
Usage of artificial intelligence to generate music
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Artificial intelligence in music
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Period of reduced funding and interest in AI research
literally phrased at DARPA that 'some of these people were going to be taught a lesson [by] having their two-million-dollar-a-year contracts cut to almost nothing
AI_winter
Singapore-based technology company
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Brilliant_Labs
Aspect of system integration regarding artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence systems integration
Artificial_intelligence_systems_integration
Computerized information extraction from images
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Computer_vision
Use of AI in government areas
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Artificial intelligence in government
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Video-generating machine learning model
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Hypothesized risk to human existence
international arms control for military artificial intelligence? Three lessons from nuclear weapons of mass destruction". Contemporary Security Policy
Existential risk from artificial intelligence
Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence
Branch of machine learning
transcriptomics to guide lead optimization in drug discovery projects: Lessons learned from the QSTAR project". Drug Discovery Today. 20 (5): 505–513
Deep_learning
Image-generating machine learning model
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Idea of national control over AI technology
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Artificial intelligence in industry
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Elections for the 13th Legislative assembly of Manipur
from the original on 8 January 2022. Kaushik Deka, Family Matters: Bitter lesson for Gandhis in Manipur Archived 17 June 2024 at the Wayback Machine
2022 Manipur Legislative Assembly election
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French artificial intelligence company
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Owkin
Realistic artificially generated media
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Deepfake
Artificial production of human speech
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Speech_synthesis
AI whose outputs can be understood by humans
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Explainable artificial intelligence
Explainable_artificial_intelligence
AI application in work environments
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Artificial intelligence in hiring
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Ojibwe historian and author
Cayleff, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993) 169- 179. "A bitter lesson: Native Americans and the government boarding school experience, 1890–1940
Brenda_Child
Deepfake studio
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Deep_Voodoo
Image-generating deep learning model
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DALL-E
Guidelines and laws to regulate AI
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Regulation of artificial intelligence
Regulation_of_artificial_intelligence
Imaginary creature created by text-to-image models
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Crungus
Italian artificial intelligence project
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Velvet_AI
Game-playing artificial intelligence
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AlphaZero
American fast food chain
Market Magazine. March 11, 2001. Switzer, Peter (August 31, 2007). "Bitter lesson in Quizno's affair". The Australian. "ACCC obtains franchise fee refund
Quiznos
Foley, Mike (23 October 2023). "'Shameful victory': Indigenous leaders' bitter lesson from Voice campaign". Brisbane Times. Nine Entertainment. Archived from
2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum
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Top-level Internet domain for Anguilla
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Methods in artificial intelligence research
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Symbolic artificial intelligence
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Ethics of artificial intelligence
Ethics_of_artificial_intelligence
Artificial intelligence field of study
S2CID 234623943. Archived from the original on 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2022-11-28. "Lessons Learned on Language Model Safety and Misuse". OpenAI. 2022-03-03. Archived
AI_safety
Field of artificial intelligence
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Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning
1879 battle of the Anglo-Zulu War
evening Chelmsford issued his orders. The British, having learned a bitter lesson at Isandlwana, would take no chances meeting the Zulu army in the open
Battle_of_Ulundi
List of concepts in artificial intelligence
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Glossary of artificial intelligence
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Artificial candidate or officeholder
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AI in wiki-based volunteer content projects
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Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects
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BITTER LESSON
BITTER LESSON
Female
Yiddish
(גִּיטל) Variant spelling of Yiddish Gitel, GITTEL means "good."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a maker of bins, from a derivative of Old English binn ‘bin’, ‘manger’.Welsh : variant of Bonner.German : variant of Binder.
Boy/Male
German
Knight; Chivalrous
Male
English
English slang term for someone who breaks things transferred to forename use, originally derived from the verb bust, BUSTER means "to break, smash," hence "breaker, destroyer, smasher."
Boy/Male
English
Wise wamor.
Boy/Male
Basque Latin
Conquers.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’.English : possibly a topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn ‘valley bottom’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Botton in Lancashire or Botton Cross in North Yorkshire.Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farms named Botn, Botten, or Botnen, from Old Norse botn ‘small valley’, ‘valley end’. Compare Botner.
Boy/Male
German
Knight.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a bolter or sifter of flour, from Middle English bo(u)lt ‘to sift’ (Old French buleter, of Germanic origin).English : occupational name for a maker of bolts or bars, from an agent derivative of Middle English bolt (see Bolt).German : habitational name for someone from a lost place named Bolt. It is the name of a large family from Hechingen, Württemberg.German (also Bölter) : occupational name for a maker of wooden bolts for crossbows, Middle High German bolter.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Butter 1.English : occupational name for a servant working in a wine cellar, Norman French boterie (see Buttery), with the Middle English genitive -s.German : variant of Butter 2.
Surname or Lastname
Jewish
Jewish : unexplained.English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bitton. The place takes its name from the Boyd river, a Celtic river name of uncertain origin + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’.
Surname or Lastname
Translation of French Lemieux.English
Translation of French Lemieux.English : nickname from Old English bētere ‘fighter’, ‘beater’. Reaney suggests it may also be a short form of the various occupational names ending with -better, for example Leadbetter.German (Bavarian) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of rosaries, from Bavarian better ‘rosary’ (from beten ‘to pray’).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to a bittern, perhaps in the booming quality of the voice, from Middle English, Old French butor ‘bittern’ (a word of obscure etymology).English and German : metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or seller of butter, from Old English butere ‘butter’, Middle High German buter.German : possibly a short form of any of the various compound names formed with Butter ‘butter’ (see 2).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Anglo-Norman French boterie ‘buttery’ (Late Latin botaria, a derivative of bota ‘cask’), hence a metonymic occupational name for the keeper of a buttery. The term originally denoted a store for liquor but soon came to mean a store for provisions in general.
Boy/Male
German
Desire
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Beaver.German : variant of Bieber.
Male
Basque
, conqueror.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or hollow (see Pitt) + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.German : variant of Peter.Jewish (from Ukraine) : metonymic occupational nanme from Yiddish dialect piter ‘butter’. Compare Putterman.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : variant spelling of Biggar.English : occupational name for a builder, from Middle English bigger ‘(house) builder’, an agent derivative of bigge(n) ‘to build’ (from Old Norse byggja).
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Bergr, BIRGER means "rescuer, saver."
BITTER LESSON
BITTER LESSON
Girl/Female
Tamil
Night, Rest, A river
Male
Gaelic
Old Gaelic name derived from the element caol, CAOLLADHE means "slender."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Czechoslovakian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Jewish, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Swiss
God is My Judge; Form of Daniel; Jacob's Son; Judge
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Lord of Kings
Girl/Female
French
From the countly estate.
Boy/Male
English
Ben's son. surname.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish spelling of Irish Hare.English
Scottish spelling of Irish Hare.English : nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the hair, from Middle English here ‘hair’.
Girl/Female
Maori
Desire. Great desire.
Boy/Male
Indian
Joyful Life; Selected; Love to Peace
Male
Egyptian
, a ram deity; and, a town in the Delta.
BITTER LESSON
BITTER LESSON
BITTER LESSON
BITTER LESSON
BITTER LESSON
v. t.
To cover or spread with butter.
n.
Alt. of Bistre
v. i.
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
v. t.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.
a.
Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
n. pl.
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
v. t.
Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
v. i.
To produce a litter.
a.
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
v. t.
Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.
v. t.
Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
n.
The bittern.
v. t.
To make bitter.
v. i.
To become better; to improve.
n.
See Bister.
a.
More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
n.
Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
n.
Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
v. t.
To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
adv.
In a bitter manner.