(v.) The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
(v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
(v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
() imp. & p. p. of Bite.
(v.) A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.
(v.) Somewhat; something, but not very great.
(v.) A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
(v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
(v.) The cutting iron of a plane.
(v.) In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.
() 3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.
(imp.) of Bite
() of Bite
Example Sentences:
(1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(2) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(3) Just last week he said: "Maybe I'll be a bit more chilled about it this year.
(4) The tissues were derived from the three germ layers and were prevalently mature; only a bit of them was represented by embryonic mesenchymal tissue.
(5) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(6) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
(7) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(8) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
(9) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(10) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
(11) I felt like he was a little bit inexperienced and the race got away from him a little bit at the third-last.
(12) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(13) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(14) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
(15) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(16) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(17) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(18) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(19) If Carlsberg made adverts for football scouts ... Scott Murray Martial, who could potentially cost Manchester United £58.8m, had quite a bit to prove.
(20) It took a little bit of time to come up on the scoreboard, so I was a bit worried.
Lorimer
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Loriner
Example Sentences:
(1) Schad was sentenced to death for killing Lorimer "Leroy" Grove, whose body was found 9 August 1978, in underbrush off the shoulder of US 89 south of Prescott.
(2) The relationship is particularly strong in Sarpsborg, because in 1970 the local team was matched against the iconic side of Bremner, Hunter and Lorimer in the Fairs Cup, losing 1-0.
(3) Major General John Lorimer, the MoD's chief military spokesman, said RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft over the past few days destroyed a main battle tank near Jadu and attacked a multiple rocket launcher and support vehicles south of Zlitan.
(4) These were previously shown to be necessary for the in vitro folding of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase at temperatures in excess of 25 degrees C (Viitanen, P. V., Lubben, T. H., Reed, J., Goloubinoff, P., O'Keefe, D. P., and Lorimer, G. H. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 5665-5671).
(5) The top British commander in Afghanistan, Lt Gen John Lorimer, said in June the Afghan military was proving an "effective force" that was "going on the front foot" against the insurgents.
(6) The former Scotland manager who is a close friend of mine, Craig Brown, said: ‘Enjoy every minute of it.’ If you’re manager of Leeds United for a day, think of the Lorimers, the Grays, the Billy Bremners.” Evans’s first match in charge will be at Fulham in the Championship on Wednesday evening, with Leeds having won only twice so far this season and currently sitting 18th in the table.
(7) Hoppe-Seyler 369, 1219-1226) and in connection with their location in the three-dimensional structure of the cat muscle pyruvate kinase (Muirhead, H., Clayden, D.A., Lorimer, C.G., Fothergill-Gilmore, L.A., Schiltz, E. & Schmitt, W. (1986) EMBO J.
(8) activated with CO2 and Mg2+), wild-type enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of 2-carboxy-3-keto-D-arabinitol 1,5-bisphosphate, the six-carbon reaction intermediate of the carboxylase reaction (Pierce, J., Andrews, T. J., and Lorimer, G. H. (1986a) J. Biol.
(9) Further, we show that the method of Cliff and Lorimer can be used with biological samples at 200 kV, and we show that quantitative analysis of human dentin can be carried out at 200 kV.
(10) This structure determination confirms the proposed location of the active site (Schneider, G., Lindqvist, Y., Brändén, C.-I., and Lorimer, G. (1986) EMBO J.
(11) Thirty-two years on people still ask Montgomery how exactly he managed to defy Leeds United's Trevor Cherry and Peter Lorimer at Wembley; in 2037 Dudek is likely to be fielding queries about that night in Istanbul in 2005 when, from point-blank range, he twice denied the European footballer of the year.
(12) 25%) using the acid precipitation method [Andrews, T.J. and Lorimer, G.H.
(13) Peter Lorimer , for instance, is regularly cited as having hit shots at over 90mph, and this scorcher from Hereford's Ronnie Radford against Newcastle looks like it could have been even faster, but we can't prove it.
(14) The aircraft struck 12 tanks, two surface to air missile launchers and an armoured fighting vehicle during armed patrols over Misrata, Brega, and Ajdabiyah on Sunday, Major General John Lorimer, chief military spokesman at the Ministry of Defence, disclosed.