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BITE, v.t. pret. bit; pp. bit, bitten.

1. To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with the teeth, as a dog.

2. To pinch or pain, as with cold; as a biting north wind; the frost bites.

3. To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.

4. To pierce,cut, or wound; as a biting falchion.

5. To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth.

6. To cheat; to trick.

The rogue was bit.

[Not elegant, but common.]

7. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor.

8. To injure by angry contention.

If ye bite and devour one another. Gal.5.

BITE, n. The seizure of any thing by the teeth of an animal, as the bite of a dog; or with the mouth, as of a fish.

1. The wound made by the teeth.

2. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.

3. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]

4. A sharper; one who cheats.



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BITE, v.t. pret. bit; pp. bit, bitten.

1. To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with the teeth, as a dog.

2. To pinch or pain, as with cold; as a biting north wind; the frost bites.

3. To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.

4. To pierce,cut, or wound; as a biting falchion.

5. To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth.

6. To cheat; to trick.

The rogue was bit.

[Not elegant, but common.]

7. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor.

8. To injure by angry contention.

If ye bite and devour one another. Gal.5.

BITE, n. The seizure of any thing by the teeth of an animal, as the bite of a dog; or with the mouth, as of a fish.

1. The wound made by the teeth.

2. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.

3. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]

4. A sharper; one who cheats.

BITE, n.

  1. The seizure of any thing by the teeth of an animal, as the bite of a dog; or with the mouth, as of a fish.
  2. The wound made by the teeth.
  3. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.
  4. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]
  5. A sharper; one who cheats.

BITE, v.t. [pret. bit; pp. bit, bitten. Sax. bitan; Sw. bita; Dan. bider; Ger. beissen, to bite.]

  1. To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with the teeth, as a dog.
  2. To pinch or pain, as with cold; as, a biting north wind; the frost bites.
  3. To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.
  4. To pierce, cut, or wound; as, a biting falchion. – Shak.
  5. To make to smart; as, acids bite the mouth.
  6. To cheat; to trick. The rogue was bit. – Pope. [Not elegant, but common.]
  7. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor. – Mar. Dict.
  8. To injure by angry contention. If ye bite and devour one another. – Gal. v.

Bite
  1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

    Such smiling rogues as these,
    Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.
    Shak.

  2. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
  3. 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.

    I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
    Walton.

  4. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
  5. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
  6. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
  7. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

    "Frosts do bite the meads." Shak.
  8. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

    At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
    Prov. xxiii. 32.

  9. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
  10. To cheat; to trick; to take in.

    [Colloq.] Pope.
  11. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
  12. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
  13. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

    The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite.
    Dickens.

    To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. -- To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us?" Shak. -- To bite the tongue, to keep silence. Shak.

  14. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
  15. 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.
  16. A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

    [Colloq.]

    The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.
    Humorist.

  17. A sharper; one who cheats.

    [Slang] Johnson.
  18. 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.
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Bite

BITE, verb transitive preterit tense bit; participle passive bit, bitten.

1. To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with the teeth, as a dog.

2. To pinch or pain, as with cold; as a biting north wind; the frost bites.

3. To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.

4. To pierce, cut, or wound; as a biting falchion.

5. To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth.

6. To cheat; to trick.

The rogue was bit.

[Not elegant, but common.]

7. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor.

8. To injure by angry contention.

If ye bite and devour one another. Galatians 5:15.

BITE, noun The seizure of any thing by the teeth of an animal, as the bite of a dog; or with the mouth, as of a fish.

1. The wound made by the teeth.

2. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.

3. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]

4. A sharper; one who cheats.

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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.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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