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varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

ulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.

f a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.

To commend; to commit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n.

A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

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

One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters." Camden.

Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.

Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. "A biting affliction." "A biting jest." Shak.

The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. G. Francis.

In a biting manner.

Not having a bit or bridle.

A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.

A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

See Bitts.