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Biter. World English Historical Dictionary

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Biter. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Biter [f. BITE v. + -ER1.]

1   1.  One who or that which bites. (See the vb.)

2 c. 1300.  Names of Hare, in Rel. Ant., I. 133. The hare … The gras-bitere, the goibert.

3 1496.  Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge, 28. A stately fysshe … a stronge byter.

4 1594.  Carew, Tasso (1881), 42. A biter at the backe, of such quaint wayes As when he carpeth most, he seemes to prayse.

5 1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 445. Otters are most accomplished biters.

6 1696.  J. Edwards, Exist. Prov. God, II. 22. These biters, these cutters, are made with a very acute edge.

7 1870.  Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. vii. 15. This biter who has bitten himself.

8   2.  spec. A deceiver; one who amuses himself at another’s expense; a sharper. (Obs. exc. in ‘the biter bit,’ a traditional quotation.)

9 1674.  Cotton, Compl. Gamester, 6. Shoals of Huffs, Hectors, Setters, Gilts, Pads, Biters,… &c. and these may all pass under the general and common appellation of Rooks.

10 1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 47, ¶ 8. An ingenious Tribe of Men … who are for making April Fools every Day in the Year. These Gentlemen are commonly distinguished by the name of Biters.

11 1712.  Steele, ibid., No. 504, ¶ 3. A Biter is one who thinks you a Fool, because you do not think him a Knave.

12 1812.  Combe (Dr. Syntax), Picturesque, XIX. To think we have so little wit, As by such biters to be bit.

13 1885.  Illustr. Lond. News, 14 Nov., 492/2. An excellent instance of “the biter bit’ was furnished.

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