The pack fly diverse; for whate'er he meets Vengeful he bites, and every bite is death.

A dog bite is really a lacerated and contused wound, and lying in the little roughnesses, and between the shreds, is the poisonous saliva.

Cleopatra learned from them, it is said, that the bite of the asp was the easiest and least painful mode of death.

There is no looking ahead in such a wind, and the bite of the small sharp sand on exposed skin is keener than any insect sting.

In some Indian tribes of Brazil and Guiana young men do not rank as warriors and may not marry till they have passed through a terrible ordeal, which consists in being stung by swarms of venomous ants whose bite is like fire.

The biting of the thumb is here a mark of vexation: to bite one's thumb at a person was considered an insult (Rom. and Jul., i. 1).