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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See bister, bistered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See bister.

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  • noun A brown pigment made from soot.
  • noun A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot

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French

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