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Bite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 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.

2. The wound made by the teeth.

3. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.

4. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]

5. A sharper; one who cheats.

Bite [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense bit; participle passive bit, bitten.

2. 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.

3. To pinch or pain, as with cold; as a biting north wind; the frost bites.

4. To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.

5. To pierce, cut, or wound; as a biting falchion.

6. To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth.

7. To cheat; to trick.

8. The rogue was bit.

9. [Not elegant, but common.]

10. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor.

11. To injure by angry contention.

12. If ye bite and devour one another. Galatians 5:15 .

Bite [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

7. A sharper; one who cheats.

8. 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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

Bite [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

4. To cheat; to trick; to take in.

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

Biter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who bites; that which bites; a fish apt to take bait.

2. One who cheats or defrauds.

Biter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.

2. One who cheats; a sharper.

Biternate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.

Biternate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.

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10 KJV and 5 BSB verses contain “Bite”

Genesis 49:17

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

Amos 9:3

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Micah 3:5

Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:

Habakkuk 2:7

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

Galatians 5:15

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

Sirach 21:2

Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, slaying the souls of men.