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ield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait. [Prov. Eng.]

, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

of these Waterford rugs. The mastiffs, . . . deeming he had been a bear, would fain have baited him. Holinshed.

muran crustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura. -- Sand canal (Zoöl.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function. --…

ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hallam.

ing anything, as the end of a bolt, rivet, etc. -- Set line, a line to which a number of baited hooks are attached, and which, supported by floats and properly secured, may be left unguarded during the absence of the fisherman. -- Set nut, a jam nut or lock nut. See under Nut. -- Set screw (Mach.), a screw, sometime…

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.] [Obs.] Bp. Bedell.

To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [Written also slete.] Ray.

Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

gerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. Walton.

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

ave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.

labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.

m; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. Macaulay.

fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

raw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.

A baiting place; an inn. [Obs.]

To bind or fasten with withes. You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death. Bp. Hall.