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; 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.

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

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

A cohabitant. Hobbes.

A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill. Shak.

An inhabitant. [R.] Derham.

In passing; incidentally; by the way. Obiter dictum (Law), an incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2(a).

The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration. [R.]

A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.

of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.

An arbiter.

An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.

ction from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. Toe biter (Zoöl.), a tadpole; a polliwig. -- Toe drop (Med.), a morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated, as in talipes equinus. See Talipes.