Noun
a portion removed from the whole; "the government''s weekly bite from my paycheck"

Noun
the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

Noun
a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"

Noun
wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"

Noun
(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait; "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"

Noun
a light informal meal

Noun
a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"

Noun
a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

Noun
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect''s stinger into skin

Verb
penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface"

Verb
deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"

Verb
to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"

Verb
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"

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.

v. t.
To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

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.

v. t.
To cheat; to trick; to take in.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

v.
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.

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

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

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

v.
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.

v.
A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

v.
A sharper; one who cheats.

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.

Bite

Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.

The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite.

Bite

At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Bite

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

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

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.

To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

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.