单词 | rebite |
释义 | rebitev. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > treat one as he has been treated [verb (transitive)] > repay (something) with the like retort?1567 countervail1583 repay?1586 return1587 rebite1594 regratulate1615 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > treat one as he has been treated [verb (transitive)] > do or give in return retribute?1570 return1584 repay1587 rebite1594 retort1637 retally1639 reciprocate1649 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 325 When the heart is wounded with griefe by any one, it desireth..to rebite him of whome it is bitten. b. transitive. To bite a second or further time. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1836 H. Murray et al. Hist. China III. ix. 430 When first bitten he mistook his assailant for a rat, and, kicking at it, was unfortunately twice re-bitten. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar iii. 39 The unwelcome visitor, who filled in the ensuing silence by re-biting and re-lighting his half-crown cigar. 1980 Musical Q. 66 426 Our enemies are biting and rebiting the dust. 2001 ABC News (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 5 Feb. If the bite is on the arm and you can't get the dog to release, just contain it to that one area... If you fight the dog, he's going to rebite. 2. transitive. To etch again with acid (see bite v. 9). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > etch > underbite or rebite rebite1815 underbite1876 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 768 When any part of the plate is materially too faint, it may be rebitten. 1836 T. Wilson Descriptive Catal. of Prints of Rembrandt 183 About the centre, is the mark of the vice, proving that Rembrandt varnished this plate in order to rebite it. 1912 B. B. Moore in F. Carrington Prints & their Makers 126 The original plates..have been coated with steel and rebitten. 1959 P. Murray & L. Murray Dict. Art & Artists 100 These faint lines are then ‘stopped-out’ with varnish and the plate re-bitten. 1997 C. James Old Master Prints & Drawings i. iv. 103 The plate is rebitten to make lines of middling depth. Derivatives reˈbiting n. ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Remorse, as it were a rebiting or gnawing again. 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 429 This second biting in the same lines is called re-biting. 1876 P. G. Hamerton Etching & Etchers 427 It is better to underbite a plate in the darks than to overbite it, because..it is easily darkened afterwards by rebiting. 1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 136/1 This procedure of stopping-out and re-biting may be repeated several times to create progressively deeper lines on the plate. 1985 Art Jrnl. 45 36 Etching, with its painstaking processes of biting and rebiting, was more suited to a caustic and restlessly experimental artistic temperament. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1594 |
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