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to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." Shak.

To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,; Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave. Shak.

A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

ectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. [Obs.] [Written also callat.]

mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.

To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. Johnson. To carry on, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. [Colloq.]

hrough the urethra to draw off the urine. Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian. -- Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

ferent qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers m…

A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.