A piece of iron or other hard material, fitted into the mouth of a horse or other animal as a means of restraint
A small piece, fragment, or amount
A small portion of something divided into larger portions
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Let me throw it out, them, to the ladies, who have the power in their hands (though it may seem like a "bit" of stolidity, and mock seriousness,) -- if it is not better after all, to cultivate the dignity of the Roman matron, and be a little severe, and a little formal, and a little proud, and a little virtuous, and so forth
A small part of something
A small piece, part, or amount
A small amount
A small piece or amount
A small portion of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The last form hut one tool, the stock being the handle, to the bottom of which may be fitted a variety of steel "bits" of different bores and shapes, for boring and widening out holes in wood and metal, as countersinks, rimers, and taper shell bits
The part of a bridle that rests in a horse's mouth
A fragment, a small piece or part of something
A small amount
A small portion of time
A small portion of something
A small piece, fragment, or portion of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: cheese-room, dye-room, sink-room, airy, piazza, hen-roost, cupboard, wardrobe, scullery, with its soap-barrel, pot of soap-grease, a range of shelves filled with rusty nails, "bits" of iron hoops, broken pokers, burnt tins, empty oil-jugs, & c
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Should he come to a "bit" of gravel, he lays it on his head, and flings it out; should the stone be too large, he shoulders it and carries it on his hack up the sloping side of the pit; if this can not be done, he signals for a "bailiff" ( a man with a barrow ) to come to his assistance, who, with a bit of stick, lifts the stone out of the way
A small portion, piece, or amount
A small part of something
A small amount or portion of something
A small piece
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The captain reached us and then tried to stop his headway; but the ancient horse had an iron jaw calloused by long use, that no "bit" would twist or hurt, and it was plainly apparent that, once under weigh, and propelled by the complex motions of the old man, the animal would go wherever it pleased
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: " You shall be served, sir; and with the better will, since you seem to be, as it were, of a God-serving turn, -- but walk in, your worship, and sit down in my "bit" of a place; which, though a homely bit, is my best, as being nearest to the fire
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The boys had planted their feet on a little "bit" of an island, around which the water gurgled; and Clapham, turning his eyes from the brook to the wooded hills, lit up with a shower of golden light, said, " Hal, is that a bit of an island we are on? " " Yes, '' replied Hal, consulting the map, `` it is the island of St
A small piece or part of something
A small portion, part, piece, or amount
A small piece, part, or amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: He dipped pretty largely into Mexican mines, and was "bit"; he undertook to improve the breed of horses in Peru, and was bit; he attempted to establish steam cotton-factories in Colombia, and was bit; he bought largely into a Chilian Steam-boat Company, and was bit
The mouthpiece of a bridle
A small piece of something
A small amount
A small piece of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: I pray you therefore -- -- Stooping down and searching for a "bit" of brick, and grinding it to dust with his heel -- I pray you therefore to let me go forth -- -- Bedaubing his whole visage with it, before he lifted his head -- You will acknowledge me -- '' I will acknowledge you, '' said the lad, so gravely that the grotesquely painted face might have been a death's head -- `` I will acknowledge you, if you give me my bit
A small amount or portion
A small piece, part or quantity of something
A small portion of something
A small amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: He is an independent abstraction -- one of that class, who do not seem aware that any feelings are to be consulted but their own, and who take the last "bit", as if unconscious that it is consecrated to that useful divinity " manners; " lads, who, in the fine language of the profession, are `` all right
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: One day, when Fanny and Miss Atherton were together in the latter's chamber -- it was one of those gloomy days of autumn when the fire looks so pleasant within and everything so unpleasant without -- on such a day, while Fanny was busied with a "bit of needle-work" ( as Miss Atherton called all work of that kind ), Miss Atherton began to tell her, with a sigh, the history of her engagement and marriage
A small piece of something, especially of food
A small part of something, especially a part that is not important or that one does not want to discuss
A small piece, part, or quantity
A small portion of anything
A small piece, part, or quantity
The part of the bridle that rests in the horse's mouth
A small amount
A small amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: said the old lady, " every "bit" and grain of my comfort is gone, " and removing her spectacles she continued silently rubbing them through her apron till Ellen, who was standing at the window on tip-toe, announced that Jane Stilman was coming with the shawls
A small amount or piece of something, especially of food
A fragment
A piece of food, such as a bit of meat or a piece of vegetable
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: I have been to work on it ever since we was at the RipRaps; and tho'it has been sometimes all pulled to "bits", to git in some notions we didn't think on, yet it will look pritty slick, I tell you when it's done
A small piece or part of something
A small piece or amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: and a magnifying-glass, abroad after flowers and butterflies or "bits" of variegated flint; and there another group, their cheeks flushed with joy and their eyes lighted with girlish hope, ascending and descending by the hour -- like the shapes that were seen moving on the hill-side in the mysterious tale of the `` Yellow God
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Two large tears orbed themselves beneath the Professor's lids, - - in obedience to the principle of gravitation celebrated in that delicious "bit" of bladdery bathos, " The very law that moulds a tear, " with which the " Edinburgh Review " attempted to discountenance the introduction of the novel among the charms of the upper-class English lady
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Nor did he slacken rein till the feet of his work horses struck on the pavement before the main entrance of the house, and with their sides panting against the wide bands of faded leather composing their harness, stood champing the "bit", and foaming as though they had just come from the plough
A small portion of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Over the first door are the words, " Hopital des Foux, " over the second, " Hopital des Malades, " and over the third, " Hopital des Gueux " Another caricature represented Law sitting in a large caldron, boiling over a fire fed by huge logs, with the inscription, `` Law, ——, '' and a bit of eighteenth century doggerel running through it
A small piece or fragment of something
A small portion of something
A small amount of something, especially as regarded as insufficient or inadequate
A small piece of something
A small piece, fragment, or portion of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The wild beast in his forest haunt, Must own him for his lord: // The desert steed, no dangers daunt With fiery hoof and flying mane, And mouth unworn by "bit" or rein, Must feel the lash and cord: And to the neck-encircling band, No stranger hand can hold the brunt, But his who wears the yoke of old, Who treads the measure of his birth, And to his toiling brethren bold, The lowly lot of toil bestows, And weaves the web of endless toil, Where the proud squire in blood and gore, With many an ill-brother, rolls his part, And claims the tribute of the poor, In unshowered blood and carnage dire
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: "Bits" of artificial flowers are strewn about the carpet, a shawl is seen thrown over one chair, a mantle over another; the light is half shut off-everything bears evidence of the gaieties of luxurious life, the sumptuous revel and the debauch
A small piece, scrap, or amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: been through so much excitement as you have lately; and, " continued Willoughby, smiling, " a man who keeps all his passions down with the rein and bit, except his ambition, must expect the blues, as you call them -- particularly, if he has such strong feelings as I have for you
A small portion of anything taken for examination or description
A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left after the greater part has been used or consumed or that is difficult to obtain or use
A small piece or particle of something
That which is put into the mouth of a horse or other animal, to be held in the teeth by the reins, and which the animal draws and champs with its teeth, when not otherwise employed
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: And your wives, like sensible women, as our wives and daughters are, would, if by accident they did meet them, never let you have a "bit" of sleep until you sent them to old Graspum's flesh-market, had them sold, and the money put into your own purse
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Thus you will see a shopkeeper parading about with mustaches; a soldier prattling to a girl about ribbons and gew-gaws; a man of great science, who never knew how to make a tolerable bow, tripping up a room as if he were tied to a bit of string
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Doat on her charms, as misers doat on pelf And like Narcissus pines for pretty self, Check her betimes, before too late you find Self love the ruling passion of her mind; Ere she assume those gestures, and grimaces, Which pretty-fool 'd lovers call expressions Of tender passion
A piece of something, especially of food
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The merchant might be content with his princely mansion, comfortably garnished with all the appliances for bed, books, and board; but the lady must astonish her opposite neighbors, by the magnificence of her curtains, and must ransack Marley's or Baudoin's for capes and bits of lawn to hide the bareness of her windows
A small piece, chunk, or slice
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: He showed us a mite that had lived three months glazed to a "bit" of glass, and a beetle which had been above three years without eating, and seemed not particular how long it lived; a spider also which had been kept one year on the same abstemious diet, and was then ready to produce eggs
A small piece or fragment of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: This good dame divided her time between squeezing the steaks, turning the corn cakes, kicking the dogs and administering various cuffs to sundry little black urchins, who were on the lookout to snatch a "bit" of the " hoe cake " whenever they could elude the vigilant arms of the cook
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: You will see these persons round the stores, looking for bits of paper, and silk, and calico, that are swept out by the clerks, upon the pavement; you will see them watching round provision shops, for decayed vegetables, and fruits, and rinds of cheese
A small portion, part, or amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Do you know that when I offered this morning to stay by the childer while she took a "bit" of sleep, that instead of resting her soul and body, she went and washed her things in the river, and got leave to iron in the house yonder, and is gone this very night? '' continued the woman
A small piece, part or quantity
A small amount
A little
A small piece of something broken off
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Betsey hoped the lady wouldn't go out to ride in her carriage, and forget, as she sometimes did, to pay her mother; and she hoped the cook would give her some cold tea to warm for their supper, and perhaps a "bit" of meat, or some bread and butter
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: But, be that as it may, the birds pitch down, each into the best "bit" of covert he can find, and squat there like so many stones, leaving no trail or taint upon the grass or bushes, and being of course proportionally hard to find; so that one may go to the end of the forest and not see a single bird all the way
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: His suspicion that their ponies had taken the matter into their own hands, -- or rather the "bits" into their own teeth, was of short duration; and as they advanced with increased rapidity, he saw plainly, by the mirthful rivalry displayed in all their actions, that they were all going in quest of the same bit, and that it could only be found in one place
A small piece, part or quantity
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: While he'showed him the casts there, he told him that, whenever he wished to copy any thing, he /z/ should always find a "bit" of carpet to cut his chalk upon, and gave him a carte-blanche to the Fine Arts room, and to the whole house, for that matter, except the dining-room and the library
A little
A small portion, part, piece, or quantity
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Mr. Brown then was nominated as cook; but as he insisted that he could cook " never a "bit" of a male but only roast potatoes, " and we had unluckily no potatoes stored, the important office was after due deliberation bestowed on the chairman himself. And thus, gentlemen, we came through our hardships to a knowledge of the true meaning of the word `` chairman ''. To summarize : a chairman is a man who sits in a special high-backed chair, and who is waited on by other men who sit on one another's shoulders
A small piece, part or portion of something
A small amount or part of something
A small amount of something, especially as used in a particular context or as a general term
A small amount or part of something
A small amount
A little
A small amount or part of something, especially with the implication of something larger or more significant behind it
A small piece or portion of something
A piece, a fragment
A small amount
A small piece of something
A small amount
A small amount
A short part in a play or film which has been assigned to an actor
A short distance or a little while
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: In her book about their relationship, " Love You to "Bits" and Pieces, " now being released by Penguin in the United States, Mrs. Helfgott describes her husband's life in what he calls the " heaven " of their rural home in Promised Land, where the couple raised their family and, for 40 years, tended bar at the local country club
A piece
A small piece, a fragment of something
A piece, part, fragment
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: A study of several versions (there are almost as many as there are writers and storytellers involved with this "bit" of folklore) leads the hunter through the change from pots of porridge to bowls; from an old vixen of a woman to a fox; from "a bit of a man" ( a child ) to a whole man
A unit of information expressed as either a 0 or 1 in binary notation
A small piece or amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: Mama watered our small lawn and hummed church songs in a low sweet voice, while Lamont, Towanda, Roscoe, and LaVern ran up and down Kennedy Avenue with the other neighborhood kids, trying to get the last "bit" of play in before it got too dark to see
A unit of information expressed as either a 0 or 1 in binary notation
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: He may, as a matter of logic alone, be making a rather vacuous assertion (if you read him with great literalness) when he insists that the Bill of Rights guarantees are " absolutes, " since every "bit" of " balancing " that could possibly enter into the First Amendment's free speech guaranty would necessarily fall on the side of less speech, and thus on the side of the very least restrictive interpretation of the First Amendment
A small amount of something, especially as regarded as inadequate or insufficiently precise or vigorous in some way
A small piece or portion of something
A fragment of something broken off
A piece, part, fragment
Used to denote a minor or walk-on role in a film or play, especially one that is close to the main action and requires relatively little dialogue
Chew ( something ) repeatedly and nervously, especially a nail or string
A small amount of something, especially something undesirable or unpleasant
A small piece of something
A small fraction of a larger amount
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: She could not see the freshness of the house in Farnham, the new "bits" of furniture here and there; the autumn leaves in her own bedroom; her worktable full of the records of John's sorrowful summer; Jack handsomer and taller, and softer, as she had always loved him, standing on the hearth and holding a lighted match to the gas jet
A short while, a little while ( often as in I 'll be along in a bit ). A minute or two
The heated end of a drill, with a spiral groove for cutting
A small portion of anything
A small portion of something taken or given in a particular form or from a particular place
A small amount of something, especially as regarded as inadequate or insufficiently significant to be worth discussing at length
A small amount of something, especially a quality or characteristic
A little
A coin of 12
A small amount or part of something, especially a tiny piece of something broken off or removed
A little
A small portion of a larger whole
A small amount
A small amount or degree
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: A "bit" of locale here-this is the North Fork of Long Island, State of New York, the Township of Southold, founded, according to a plaque out on the highway, in sixteen-forty-something by some people from New Haven, Connecticut, who, it is inferred, were tired of paying exorbitant prices for the bits of locale then known as Long Island Sound and Connecticut River
A turn or attempt at doing something, especially when it is a habitual action or a well-known trope
A small piece or part of something, especially one that is left after other parts have been broken off or used up
A small amount
A piece
A small piece of something, especially of food
A small piece or portion of something, especially a piece of food that is left after eating or is not eaten in one mouthful
A small part of something
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The vertical bands which were covered with plastic had worn and granulated under the demands of our press run, and we had spent a weekend wiping and washing off the silk screen and picking "bits" of plastic out of the ink and cursing and wasting paper and trying to get out the goddamn press without hurting ourselves
A small piece of something
A little
A small amount or part of something
A small amount or part of something
A small amount or part of something, especially of time passed or to be passed ( often used in expressions indicating a delay or loss of time )
A small amount of something, especially as regarded as inadequate or insufficiently significant to merit attention or consideration
A small part, piece or portion
A cutting tool for making holes, for example in wood or stone
A tool for boring or drilling
A small piece or fragment of something
A small piece or portion of something
A small amount
A small amount
A piece of information
A small amount
A small piece, fragment, or portion of something
A small amount
A unit of information expressed as either a 0 or 1 in binary notation
A moderate amount
A piece of information
A small piece or portion of something
A little
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The "bits" of paper kept floating back into the toilet bowl and by the time she finally got rid of them it was light, and all the daisies in the garden had been snapped by the wind, and the concrete around the swimming pool was littered with fallen palm fronds
A set of jokes or ideas on a particular subject, especially as forming part of a comedian's act or in a film or broadcast
A small amount of something, especially as regarded as insufficient or inadequate
A small amount
A small piece or part of something
A tool for cutting, with a small blade at right angles to the handle
A small amount
A small amount or part of something, especially when considered inadequate or insufficiently significant to merit more precise measurement or description
A small amount
A little
A small amount of something, especially as a part of a larger whole or as a remainder after other parts have been taken or used
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: She had not known where this last "bit" had come from, and, she could tell, neither had he, but she could hear the other nurses coming down the hall to see who was yelling, and though Cleophus Sanders looked to have more pity on his face than the others, she could tell he was hoping it was he who had gotten the bit, for he had been the one to call her, and, from the tone of his voice, she could tell he had some hope of getting it, and, not knowing what else to do, she picked up her feet and ran down the hall to her room and shut the door and locked it, and, though she knew it was silly, she got into bed and hid under the covers, though she
A small piece, part, or quantity of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been taken or used
A little
A small amount
Used to emphasize the extent or intensity of something, especially in a negative context
A unit of information equal to one million or ( strictly ) 1,048,576 bytes
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "bit" in the following sentence: The diners laughed and the waiters laughed and so did Ugo, the jolly old elf at the buffet table, who was sprinkling a bit of this and a "bit" of that into his tangy and oh so scrumptious herring paste -- a Vibert, as Ugo called it, though it was plain old herring paste to the rest of us
A small amount or part of something, used for emphasis or to express annoyance or contempt
A small piece of something, especially food cut up for cooking or eaten as a snack or light meal
A small piece or part of something, especially a fragment of something broken or worn off or away
A little
A small portion of something
A small part of something, or a particular aspect of it
