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 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.
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.
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.
An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.