Helen Fenton

Bite: Definition and part of speech

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Bite

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
  4. v. t. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
  5. v. t. To cheat; to trick; to take in.
  6. v. t. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
  7. v. i. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
  8. v. i. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
  9. v. i. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
  10. v. i. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
  11. 1v. 1 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.
  12. 1v. t. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Biter: Definition and part of speech

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Biter

  1. n. One who cheats; a sharper.
  2. n. One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Biting in: Definition and part of speech

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Biting in

  1. The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.