n. The act of biting; a bite.n. The action of biting food; eating; grazing.n. The biting, cutting, or penetrating action of an edged weapon or tool.n. The biting, catching, holding, cutting, or boring part of a tool.n. A boring-tool used in a carpenter's brace.n. The metal part of a bridle which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, with the appendages (rings, etc.) to which the reins are fastened.n. The joint of an umbrella.n. A hammer used by masons for dressing granite and for rough picking.n. In music, a short piece of tube used to alter slightly the pitch of such wind-instruments as the trumpet, cornet-à-pistons, etc.To put a bridle upon; put the bit in the mouth of (a horse); accustom to the bit; hence, to curb; restrain.n. A portion of food bitten off; a mouthful; a bite.n. A morsel or a little piece of food.n. Hence A small quantity of food; a modicum or moderate supply of provisions: as, to take a bit and a sup.n. A small piece or fragment of anything; a small portion or quantity; a little: as, a bit of glass; a bit of land; a bit of one's mind.n. Crisis; nick of time.n. A small piece of ground; a spot.n. Any small coin: as, a fourpenny-bit; a six-penny-bit.n. Synonyms Scrap, fragment, morsel, particle, atom.n. Preterit and occasional past participle of bite.n. A Middle English and Anglo-Saxon contraction of biddeth, third person singular indicative present of bid.n. An obsolete spelling of bitt.n. A Middle English form of butt.n. In mining: The cutting edge of a drill for boring rock by hand or by machine drilling.n. A sharpened steel bar used for drilling rock by hand or by machine.n. In ceramics, a small piece of stone for separating the pieces of pottery in the kiln: used before the invention of stilts, cock-spurs, and triangles. Ware so made was called bit-stone ware.