1. • noun - a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
   • noun - a small amount of solid food
   • noun - a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
   • noun - a light informal meal
   • noun - (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
   • noun - wit having a sharp and caustic quality
   • noun - a strong odor or taste property
   • noun - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
   • noun - a portion removed from the whole
   • verb - to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
   • verb - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
   • verb - penetrate or cut, as with a knife
   • verb - deliver a sting to
2. • To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.
   • To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.
   • To sting with a stinger.
   • To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument: The sword bit straight through the wooden shield.
   • To grip, grab, or seize: bald treads that couldn’t bite the icy road; bitten by a sudden desire to travel.
   • To eat into; corrode.
   • To cause to sting or be painful: cold that bites the skin; a conscience bitten by remorse.
   • To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth.
   • To have a stinging effect.
   • To have a sharp taste.
   • To take or swallow bait.
   • To be taken in by a ploy or deception: tried to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but no one bit.
   • The act of biting.
   • A skin wound or puncture produced by an animal’s teeth or mouthparts: the bite of an insect.
   • A stinging or smarting sensation.
   • An incisive, penetrating quality: the bite of satire.
   • An amount removed by or as if by an act of biting: Rezoning took a bite out of the town’s residential area.
   • An amount of food taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful.
   • A light meal or snack.
   • The act or an instance of taking bait: fished all day without a bite; an ad that got a few bites but no final sales.
   • A secure grip or hold applied by a tool or machine upon a working surface.
   • The part of a tool or machine that presses against and maintains a firm hold on a working surface.
   • The angle at which the upper and lower teeth meet; occlusion.
   • The corrosive action of acid upon an etcher’s metal plate.
   • An amount of money appropriated or withheld: trying to avoid the tax bite.
   • To fall dead, especially in combat.
   • To be defeated.
   • The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to seize and tear or grind something with the teeth”: bite into a ripe tomato; horses champing grain; a dog gnawing a bone.
3. • adj - to seize with the teeth [v BIT, BITTEN, BITING, BITES] : BITEABLE

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