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Bite \Bite\, v. i.
1. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with
the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog
bite?
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2. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which
causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like
pepper or mustard.
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3. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or
injure; to have the property of so doing.
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At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and
stingeth like an adder. --Prov. xxiii.
32.
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4. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to
take a tempting offer.
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5. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
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Bite \Bite\ (b[imac]t), v. t. [imp. {Bit} (b[i^]t); p. p.
{Bitten} (b[i^]t"t'n), {Bit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Biting}.] [OE.
biten, AS. b[imac]tan; akin to D. bijten, OS. b[imac]tan,
OHG. b[imac]zan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. b[imac]ta,
Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to cleave, Skr. bhid to
cleave. [root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.]
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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.
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Such smiling rogues as these,
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. --Shak.
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2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some
insects) used in taking food.
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3. 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.
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4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.
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5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the
anchor bites the ground.
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The last screw of the rack having been turned so
often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned
and turned with nothing to bite. --Dickens.
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{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.
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Bite \Bite\, n. [OE. bite, bit, bitt, AS. bite bite, fr.
b[imac]tan to bite, akin to Icel. bit, OS. biti, G. biss. See
{Bite}, v., and cf. {Bit}.]
1. 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.
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I have known a very good fisher angle diligently
four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a
bite. --Walton.
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2. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking
food, as is done by some insects.
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3. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or
snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
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4. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
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5. 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.
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6. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [Colloq.]
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The baser methods of getting money by fraud and
bite, by deceiving and overreaching. --Humorist.
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7. A sharper; one who cheats. [Slang] --Johnson.
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8. (Print.) 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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