[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bite \bite\ bimact, v. t. imp. bit bi^t; p. p.
   bitten bi^t"t'n, bit; p. pr.  vb. n. biting. oe.
   biten, as. bimactan; akin to d. bijten, os. bimactan,
   ohg. bimaczan, g. beissen, goth. beitan, icel. bimacta,
   sw. bita, dan. bide, l. findere to cleave, skr. bhid to
   cleave. root87. cf. fissure.
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   1. to seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the
      thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth;
      as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
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            such smiling rogues as these,
            like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. --shak.
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   2. to puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ of some
      insects used in taking food.
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   3. to cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,
      in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the
      mouth. "frosts do bite the meads." --shak.
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   4. to cheat; to trick; to take in. colloq. --pope.
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   5. to take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the
      anchor bites the ground.
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            the last screw of the rack having been turned so
            often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned
            and turned with nothing to bite.      --dickens.
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   to bite the dust, to bite the ground, to fall in the
      agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.

   to bite in etching, to corrode or eat into metallic
      plates by means of an acid.

   to bite the thumb at any one, formerly a mark of
      contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "do you
      bite your thumb at us?" --shak.

   to bite the tongue, to keep silence. --shak.
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see also:
bit bitten biting fissure to bite the dust to bite the ground 
to bite in to bite the thumb at to bite the tongue 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dust \dust\ du^st, n. as. dust; cf. lg. dust, d. duist meal
   dust, od. doest, donst, and g. dunst vapor, ohg. tunist,
   dunist, a blowing, wind, icel. dust dust, dan. dyst mill
   dust; perh. akin to l. fumus smoke, e. fume. root71.
   1. fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so
      comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind;
      that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder;
      as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
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            dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
                                                  --gen. iii.
                                                  19.
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            stop -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.
                                                  --byron.
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   2. a single particle of earth or other matter. r. "to touch
      a dust of england's ground." --shak.
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   3. the earth, as the resting place of the dead.
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            for now shall sleep in the dust.      --job vii. 21.
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   4. the earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of
      the human body.
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            and you may carve a shrine about my dust.
                                                  --tennyson.
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   5. figuratively, a worthless thing.
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            and by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. --shak.
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   6. figuratively, a low or mean condition.
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            god raiseth up the poor out of the dust. --1 sam.
                                                  ii. 8.
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   7. gold dust; hence: slang coined money; cash.
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   down with the dust, deposit the cash; pay down the money.
      slang "my lord, quoth the king, presently deposit your
      hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the
      days of your life. . . . the abbot down with his dust, and
      glad he escaped so, returned to reading." --fuller.

   dust brand bot., a fungous plant ustilago carbo; --
      called also smut.

   gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in
      placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred
      by weight.

   in dust and ashes. see under ashes.

   to bite the dust. see under bite, v. t.

   to raise dust, or

   to kick up dust, to make a commotion. colloq.

   to throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive.
      colloq.
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see also:
down with the dust dust brand ustilago carbo smut gold dust in dust and ashes 
ashes to bite the dust bite to raise dust to kick up dust 
to throw dust in one's eyes 

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