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bíte

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
bíte, es; m. [bítan to bite]
Wright's OE grammar
§386; §562;
A BITE, pain, the biting or pain of a wound, a biting disease or cancer; morsus, cancri morbus vel cancer
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  • Hyt ða wédendan bítas gehǽleþ

    it heals the maddening bites,

      Med. ex Quadr. 13, 7; Lchdm. i. 370, 14.
  • Wið apan bíte

    for the bite of an ape,

      11, 7; Lchdm. i. 366, 24: L. Ethb. 35; Th. i. 12, 5: Beo. Th. 4126; B. 2060.
  • Þurh sweordes bíte

    through the bite of the sword,

      Apstls. Kmbl. 68; Ap. 34.
  • Bíte írena

    the bite of swords,

      Beo. Th. 4511; B. 2259.
  • Gnættas cómon ofer ðæt land mid fýrsmeortendum bítum

    gnats came over the land with fire-smarting bites,

      Ors. 1, 7; Bos. 29, 30.
  • Wið cancerádle, ðæt is, bíte,

    against cancer-disease, that is, a biting disease,

      L. M. 1, 44; Lchdm. ii. 108, 9.
Derived forms
DER. láþ-bíte.
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