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BITE, 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. Galatians 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.