Bite

n.
  1. The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
  2. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
  3. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
  4. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
  5. 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.
  6. A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
  7. A sharper; one who cheats.
  8. (Print.) 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.