Bite
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
(2): (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.
(3): (v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
(4): (v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
(5): (v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(6): (v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
(7): (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.
(8): (v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
(9): (v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
(10): (v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
(11): (v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(12): (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.
(13): (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.
(14): (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.
(15): (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.
(16): (v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
(17): (v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
(18): (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?
King James Dictionary [2]
BITE, pret. bit pp. bit, bitten.
1. 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. 2. To pinch or pain, as with cold as a biting north wind the frost bites. 3. To reproach with sarcasm to treat with severity by words or writing as, one poet praises, another bites. 4. To pierce,cut, or wound as a biting falchion. 5. To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth. 6. To cheat to trick.
The rogue was bit.
Not elegant, but common.
7. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor. 8. To injure by angry contention.
If ye bite and devour one another. Galatians 5
BITE, n. 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.
1. The wound made by the teeth. 2. A morsel as much as is taken at once by biting a mouthful. 3. A cheat a trick a fraud. A low word. 4. A sharper one who cheats.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to bite," in Galatians 5:15 , "if ye bite and devour one another," is used metaphorically of wounding the soul, or rendering with reproaches.
