To cause sharp pain to produce anguish to hurt or injure to have the property of so doing.Īt the last it biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder. To cause a smarting sensation to have a property which causes such a sensation to be pungent as, it bites like pepper or mustard. To seize something forcibly with the teeth to wound with the teeth to have the habit of so doing as, does the dog bite? To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel to defy. To bite in Etching, to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death as, he made his enemy bite the dust.
it turned and turned with nothing to bite. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled. To take hold of to hold fast to adhere to as, the anchor bites the ground. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense as, pepper bites the mouth. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food. Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.
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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