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e, 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.

t 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.

A binnacle. [Obs.]

of Bite.

AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

me of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.