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Bite \Bite\, n. [OE. bite, bit, bitt, AS. bite bite, fr.
b[=i]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.

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

2. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking
food, as is done by some insects.

3. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or
snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

4. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

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.

6. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [Colloq.]

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

7. A sharper; one who cheats. [Slang] --Johnson.

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.

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[=i]tan; akin to D. bijten, OS. b[=i]tan, OHG.
b[=i]zan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. b[=i]ta, Sw. bita,
Dan. bide, L. findere to cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave.
[root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.]
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 puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some
insects) used in taking food.

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.

4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.

5. 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.

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?

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.

3. 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.

4. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to
take a tempting offer.

5. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

They will continue to attack where another dog will just bite and run away," Burns said.
"I once saw a camel bite a man's arm and tear it off," says Lt.
James Webb, a spokesman for the company, said the bite was not immediately reported.
The company said that when it issued the debentures, it was able to essentially convert that part of its Du Pont stake to cash while deferring the tax bite.
William Eastman, director of the State University of New York Press, which is publishing Cooper works that have been out of print for decades, thinks the new Cooper editions will take the bite out of Twain's essay.
That may cause the tick to regurgitate fluid into the bite.
The decline was blamed on an early Easter, bad weather and a bigger federal tax bite for some people.
But while analysts are convinced that Niagara Mohawk is going to bite the bullet on the dividend, they are sharply divided on whether investors should buy or sell the stock.
But it's far below the $2 mark that would have to set in before gasoline could take an early '80s-style bite out of the family budget.
"I'll probably vote for neither one," said a sister, Doris Westfall. "I'll let the rest of the county decide." It was the bang _ not the bite _ that had Jerry Dewitt jittery after tearing into an old vaccum cleaner bag.
"There's a theoretic possibility that falls between no reported cases and the hypothetical risk of blood being exchanged through a deep bite," she said.
That will insulate those profits from a huge tax bite.
He also makes this movie because, by and large, "Arachnobobia" lacks bite.
We had to bite the bullet.
But the first new trademark law in 31 years, which takes effect next April, could take a while to bite. The new law will stop the Indonesian trademark office giving licences to new users of widely known trademarks.
But pythons have small, sharp teeth that can inflict a painful bite, he said.
That typically would have meant a $400-a-year bite.
But people are putting the bite on other people as well.
But the same students who perform Korean folk dances after class are likely to stop off for a bite later at McDonald's or Baskin-Robbins, says Mr. Seo: "No one can deny modernity."
Many of them bite their nails. Their hair can be quite greasy.
'Even the kindest, gentlest man, if pressed and pressed and pressed, will want to bite back,' he said.
The comedy is mordant, but it is not he who puts the bite into it.
The preceding tree programme is all bark and no bite. Communal nuttiness also surfaces in The Vicar of Dibley (8.30 BBC1), the sitcom about a clergywoman.
But a takeover of Allied-Lyons would be a big bite.
Then came word that McDonald's may cut prices permanently on some menu items to grab a bigger bite of the fast-food pie.
In the first two tries, Steinberg family members, who hold almost all the voting common stock, didn't bite.
After his first bite in 63 days, Rubin said he was looking forward "to watching movies with popcorn again." Rubin said he hadn't stepped on a scale to determine the effects of his liquid-only fast, but noted he had lost three belt notches.
"If you pick a puppy up by the tail or a kitten by the whiskers, it's going to bite or scratch you.
The bite from the alternative minimum tax, or AMT, on this $10 million gap is $1 million.
Looking back, the concessions seemed only to have postponed the inevitable. Doubt about the government's renewed commitment to reform is based on more than a failure to bite the foreign exchange bullet.

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