Biting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bitingFlea bite
The bite of a flea or the red spot caused by the bite...
Bite
To seize something forcibly with the teeth to wound with the teeth to have the habit of so doing as does the dog bite...
Biting
That bites sharp cutting sarcastic caustic...
Bitingly
In a biting manner...
Biter
One who or that which bites that which bites often or is inclined to bite as a dog or fish...
Gnaw
To bite as something hard or tough which is not readily separated or crushed to bite off little by little with effort to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth to nibble at...
Bubonic plague
a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis formerly Pasteurella pestis transmitted to man by the bite of fleas themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents It is characterized by the formation of buboes most notably on the groin and armpits and accompanied by weakness and high fever The disease was known as the black death and was responsible for several devastating plagues throughout the middle ages When lungs became infected the disease was called the pneumonic plague It is still found occasionally in poor areas of undeveloped countries but is rare in developed countries...
Haje
The Egyptian asp or cobra Naja haje It is related to the cobra of India and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood Its bite is very venomous It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide and hence is sometimes called Cleopatras snake or asp See Asp...
Mordacious
Biting given to biting hence figuratively sarcastic severe scathing...
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Any of several minute two winged biting insects of the family Ceratopogonidae that suck the blood of mammals and birds and other insects also called biting midge and punkie...
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