bite vs buckram

bite

verb
  • To attack with the teeth. 

  • To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. 

  • To behave aggressively; to reject advances. 

  • To take or keep a firm hold. 

  • To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. 

  • To take hold; to establish firm contact with. 

  • To sting. 

  • To have significant effect, often negative. 

  • To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. 

  • To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure. 

  • To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. 

  • To hold something by clamping one's teeth. 

  • To cut into something by clamping the teeth. 

  • To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. 

  • To plagiarize, to imitate. 

  • To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. 

  • To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. 

noun
  • A small meal or snack. 

  • The wound left behind after having been bitten. 

  • Something unpleasant. 

  • The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. 

  • aggression 

  • A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money. 

  • The act of biting. 

  • A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. 

  • The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. 

  • A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. 

  • An act of plagiarism. 

buckram

verb
  • To stiffen with or as if with buckram. 

noun
  • A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. 

  • A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic. 

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