adjective. Causing a stinging sensation; nipping.

adjective. Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic.

adjective. Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.

Nipping; keen: as, biting cold; biting weather.

Severe; sharp; bitter; painful: as, a “biting affliction,”

Acrid; hot; pungent: as, a biting taste.

Hence Sharp; severe; cutting; sarcastic: as, a biting remark.

noun. The action of cutting, piercing, etc., in any sense of bite.

noun. The corroding action of a mordant upon a metal plate, wherever the lines of a design, drawn upon a prepared ground, have been laid bare with a needle, as in etching, or the surface is alternately stopped out and exposed, as in aquatint.

adjective. That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.

verb. Present participle of bite.

noun. The action of the verb to bite.

noun. An occurrence of a bite.

adjective. Causing a stinging sensation.

adjective. Cutting or incisive.

adjective. Tending to bite.

adjective. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

adjective. capable of wounding

"That beverage is described by the Franciscan, who was sent by St. Louis, as what he calls biting, and leaving a taste like almond milk on the palate; though Elphinstone, on the contrary writing in this century, says "it is of a whitish colour and a sourish taste.""

acrid  acrimonious  sarcastic  stimulating  

painful  sarcastic  

bitingly  

benighting  citing  delighting  exciting  fighting  

Attic  Siberian  acerb  acerbate  acerbic  

bite