BPage 157
- English Word Bite Definition To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
- English Word Bite Definition To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- English Word Bite Definition To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
- English Word Bite Definition To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
- English Word Bite Definition The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
- English Word Bite Definition The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
- English Word Bite Definition The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
- English Word Bite Definition A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
- English Word Bite Definition The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- English Word Bite Definition A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
- English Word Bite Definition A sharper; one who cheats.
- English Word Bite Definition A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- English Word Biter Definition One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
- English Word Biter Definition One who cheats; a sharper.
- English Word Biternate Definition Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.
- English Word Bitheism Definition Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
- English Word Biting Definition of Bite
- English Word Biting Definition That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.
- English Word Biting in Definition The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch.
- English Word Bitingly Definition In a biting manner.
- English Word Bitless Definition Not having a bit or bridle.
- English Word Bitstock Definition A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
- English Word Bitt Definition See Bitts.
- English Word Bitt Definition To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
- English Word Bittacle Definition A binnacle.
- English Word Bitted Definition of Bit
- English Word Bitten Definition of Bite
- English Word Bitten Definition p. p. of Bite.
- English Word Bitten Definition Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
- English Word Bitter Definition AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.