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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.

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. Gibbon.

Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.

See Cenobite.

A cohabitant. Hobbes.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.

A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

A deeption; a cheat. [Obs.]

Having the measure of a cubit.

A vessel of flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.

Uninhabited. [Obs.]