Bit
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) In the British West Indies, a fourpenny piece, or groat.
(2): (v.) A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
(3): (v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
(4): of Bite
(5): (imp.) of Bite
(6): (v.) A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.
(7): (v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
(8): (v.) In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.
(9): (v.) Somewhat; something, but not very great.
(10): (v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
(11): (v.) The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
(12): (v.) The cutting iron of a plane.
(13): imp. & p. p. of Bite.
(14): 3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.
King James Dictionary [2]
BIT, n. The iron part of a bridle which is inserted in the mouth of a horse,and its appendages, to which the reins are fastened. It includes the bit mouth, the branches, the curb, the sevel holes, the tranchefil and cross chains. Bits are of various kinds, as the musrol, snaffle,or watering bit the canon mouth, jointed in the middle the canon or fast mouth, all of a piece, kneed in the middle the scatch-mouth the masticador,or slavering bit &c.
BIT, To put a bridle upon a horse to put the bit in the mouth.
BIT, pret. and pp. of bite. Seized or wounded by the teeth.
BIT, n. A small piece a mouthful, or morsel a bite.
1. A small piece of any substance. 3. A small coin of the West Indies, a half pistareen, about ten cents, or five pence sterling. 4. The point of an auger, or other borer the bite.
This word is used, like jot and whit, to express the smallest degree as, he is not a bit wiser or better.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [3]
Psalm 32:9 2 Kings 19:28 Proverbs 26:3 Isaiah 37:29 James 3:3
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
James 1:26 James 3:2 2 Kings 19:28 Isaiah 37:29
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
( מֶתֶּג , Me'Theg, Psalms 22:9; Χαλινός , James 3:3; both elsewhere " bridle"), the Curb put into horses' mouths to guide and restrain them. (See Bridle).
