a bit of bite

The Wordnik Word of the Day for September 6, 2012 is

morsure
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(noun) The act of biting.

‘Morsure’ comes from the Latin ‘morsus,’ biting, a bite.

 

Example:
Farther, that nothing less than a violent heat can disentangle these creatures from their hamated station in life; or give them vigour and humour, to imprint the marks of their little teeth. That if the morsure be hexagonal, it produces poetry; thRead More...