bister

Occasionally there are a few spots or scrawls of "bister" or "clove brown" about the larger end.

The eggs themselves, protectively colored in bister and black, are mauled about and soiled in the mud; but the day is saved.

The markings are in dark shades of brown, "burnt umber," "bister," or "bone brown."

One egg of the set has the "bister" markings larger and thicker on the large end.

It was apparently Greek, yet it was not the language his lordship of Bister had learnt at school and college.