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bait

BAIT, n.

1. Any substance for food, proper to be used or actually used, to catch fish, or other animals, by alluring them to swallow a hook, or to be caught in snares, or in an inclosure or net.

2. A portion of food and drink, or a refreshment taken on a journey.

3. An allurement; enticement; temptation.

BAIT, v.t. To put meat on a hook or line, or in an inclosure, or among snares, to allure fish,fowls and other animals into human power.

2. To give a portion of food and drink to man or beast upon the road; as, to bait horses.

BAIT, v.i. To take a portion of food and drink for refreshment on a journey; as, we stopped to bait.




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BAIT, n.

1. Any substance for food, proper to be used or actually used, to catch fish, or other animals, by alluring them to swallow a hook, or to be caught in snares, or in an inclosure or net.

2. A portion of food and drink, or a refreshment taken on a journey.

3. An allurement; enticement; temptation.

BAIT, v.t. To put meat on a hook or line, or in an inclosure, or among snares, to allure fish,fowls and other animals into human power.

2. To give a portion of food and drink to man or beast upon the road; as, to bait horses.

BAIT, v.i. To take a portion of food and drink for refreshment on a journey; as, we stopped to bait.


BAIT, v.i.

To take a portion of food and drink for refreshment on a journey; as, we stopped to bait.


BAIT, v.i.

To clap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover as a hawk, when she stoops to her prey. – Bailey. Shak.


BAIT, v.t.

  1. To put meat on a hook or line, or in an inclosure, or among snares, to allure fish, fowls and other animals into human power.
  2. To give a portion of food and drink to a beast upon the road; as, to bait horses.

BAIT, v.t. [Goth. beitan. In Sax. bate is contention. See Make-bate.]

  1. To provoke and harass by dogs; to harass by the help of others; as, to bait a bull or a boar.
  2. To attack with violence; to harass in the manner of small animals. – Shak.

BAIT, n. [W. abwyd, bwyd; Arm. boet; Ir. abadh; Sw. bete, food; beta, to feed; Sax. batan, to bait; Russ. pitayu; Dan. beder, to rest for refreshment.]

  1. Any substance for food, proper to be used or actually used, to catch fish, or other animals, by alluring them to swallow a hook, or to be caught in snares, or in an enclosure or net.
  2. A portion of food and drink, or a refreshment taken on a journey.
  3. An allurement; enticement; temptation.

BAIT, n.

White Bait, a small fish of the Thames.


Bait
  1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
  2. To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
  3. To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

    Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
    Milton.

    My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting at Newmarket.
    Evelyn.

  4. To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

    "Kites that bait and beat." Shak.
  5. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

    Fairfax.
  6. To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.

    Holland.
  7. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
  8. To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

    A crooked pin . . . baited with a vile earthworm.
    W. Irving.

  9. A light or hasty luncheon.

    Bait bug (Zoöl.), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

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bait

BAIT, n.

1. Any substance for food, proper to be used or actually used, to catch fish, or other animals, by alluring them to swallow a hook, or to be caught in snares, or in an inclosure or net.

2. A portion of food and drink, or a refreshment taken on a journey.

3. An allurement; enticement; temptation.

BAIT, v.t. To put meat on a hook or line, or in an inclosure, or among snares, to allure fish,fowls and other animals into human power.

2. To give a portion of food and drink to man or beast upon the road; as, to bait horses.

BAIT, v.i. To take a portion of food and drink for refreshment on a journey; as, we stopped to bait.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

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CIVIL, a.

1. Relating to the community, or to the policy and government of the citizens and subjects of a state; as in the phrases, civil rights, civil government, civil privileges, civil war, civil justice. It is opposed to criminal; as a civil suit, a suit between citizens alone; whereas a criminal process is between the state and a citizen. It is distinguished from ecclesiastical, which respects the church; and from military, which respects the army and navy.

2. Relating to any man as a member of a community; as civil power, civil rights, the power or rights which a man enjoys as a citizen.

3. Reduced to order, rule and government; under a regular administration; implying some refinement of manners; not savage or wild; as civil life; civil society.

4. Civilized; courteous; complaisant; gentle and obliging; well-bred; affable; kind; having the manners of a city, as opposed to the rough, rude, coarse manners of a savage or clown.

Where civil speech and soft persuasion hung.

5. Grave; sober; not gay or showy.

Till civil suited morn appear.

6. Compaisant; polite; a popular colloquial use of the word.

7. Civil death, in law, is that which cuts off a man from civil society, or its rights and benefits, as banishment, outlawry, excommunication, entering into a monastery, &c., as distinguished from natural death.

8. Civil law, in a general sense, the law of a state, city or country; but in an appropriate sense, the Roman empire, comprised in the Institutes, Code and Digest of Justinian and the Novel Constitutions.

9. Civil list, the officers of civil government, who are paid from the public treasury; also, the revenue appropriated to support the civil government.

The army of James II was paid out of his civil list.

10. Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens, not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.

11. Civil war, a war between people of the same state or city; opposed to foreign war.

12. Civil year, the legal year, or annual account of time which a government appoints to be used in its own dominions, as distinguished from the natural year, which is measured by the revolution of the heavenly bodies.

13. Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture; as private houses, palaces, churches, &c.

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