English English Dictionary

To commend; to commit.

A line that touches a curve in two points.

Possessing the property of touching at two points.

A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

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 take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

To cheat; to trick; to take in.

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.

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

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.

A sharper; one who cheats.

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

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

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.