bait的意思|bait的解释-里氏词典

Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baited}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Baiting}.] [OE. baiten, beit[=e]n, to feed, harass, fr.
Icel. beita, orig., to cause to bite, fr. b[=i]ta. [root]87.
See {Bite}.]
1. To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for
sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

2. To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as,
to bait horses. --Holland.

3. To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

A crooked pin . . . baited with a vile earthworm.
--W. Irving.

Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), n. [Icel. beita food, beit pasture, akin
to AS. b[=a]t food, Sw. bete. See {Bait}, v. t.]
1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other
animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or
net.

2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
--Fairfax.

3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a
journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

4. A light or hasty luncheon.

{Bait bug} (Zo["o]l.), a crustacean of the genus {Hippa}
found burrowing in sandy beaches. See {Anomura}.

Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), v. i.
To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment
of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

Evil news rides post, while good news baits. --Milton.

My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting
at Newmarket. --Evelyn.

Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), v. i. [F. battre de l'aile (or des ailes),
to flap or flutter. See {Batter}, v. t.]
To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a
hawk when she stoops to her prey. ``Kites that bait and
beat.'' --Shak.

A senior administration official described the industry measure as "veto bait."
In a test in Minnesota, a single dog kept a small wolf pack from a bait station for 30 nights, until the wolves finally combined forces to drive off the dog, Coppinger said.
But Republican members said the legislation remains "veto bait" because President Bush opposes any restrictions on his ability to negotiate the agreement with the Japanese government.
Companies yearning for Ordinary Joes offer free emergency road service and free long-distance calling on weekends. Others try to bait the hook with cheap equipment rentals.
He has worked with Air Vent Inc. of Peoria Heights to develop the repellents and a deadly new bait that someday might provide owners of infested homes and businesses a lethal one-two punch for controlling the pesky insect.
Gunasekaran is one of 34 volunteers hired by the Health Department to act as "human bait" to attract and catch mosquitoes as part of a program that helps keep this city of 1 million people free of malaria.
Once located, the fun began. The skill was to land the worms a foot or so beyond the snout, to see the bait on the gravel, and to wait for the savour to activate the eel's foraging instincts.
An attempt to corral the birds with cannon nets, which are pulled by small rockets over a baited area, failed because the pheasants disdained the bait.
In a lawsuit filed in federal district court here, the Wayne, N.J.-based maker of Combat Roach Control System claimed d-Con falsely advertised the effectiveness and superiority of its roach "bait stations."
The environmentalists said that at least 24 states reported posioning of protected wildlife that had either eaten strychnine-laced bait or the remains of other animals exposed to the bait.
The environmentalists said that at least 24 states reported posioning of protected wildlife that had either eaten strychnine-laced bait or the remains of other animals exposed to the bait.
Only artificial lures can be used, because the fish tend to swallow natural bait, along with the hook.
They're lured into the traps by smelly bait like sardines and mustard sauce.
The mousetrap works this way: The mouse crawls in to get the bait, tips the trap and causes the door to lock behind it.
A witch doctor using a monkey as bait captured the companion of a notorious man-eating crocodile, but the 200-year-old killer croc remains at large, a newspaper said today.
The industry itself has been slow to take the bait.
So helicopters were used to spread over Rangitoto a poisoned bait palatable to mammals but not to birds.
The Reagan administration calls it veto bait and Japanese businessmen expressed elation last week when Gephardt carried only one of the 20 states _ his own _ where there was Super Tuesday primary and caucus voting.
But the industry itself has been slow to take the bait.
The treasury secretary is there, Coelho alleged, "in case George is too squeamish to bait his own hook." Then Coelho began the "where was George?" routine that pokes at Bush's lack of identity in Reagan administration matters.
Spores of the parasite are put on wheat bran flakes to form a bait.
The state is spraying 400 square miles of Los Angeles and Orange counties at night to wipe out the worst infestation of the crop-destroying bug since 1981-82. Helicopters drop a mixture of malathion and sticky corn syrup bait.
Taking the long view, Mr. Rybczynski explains that people used to know how to have fun, using whatever leisure time they had to gulp gin, bait bears, and watch chickens spur each other to death.
It is starting to flower today in its second year and, after a preliminary defence with slug bait in April, it is left alone by slugs.
To survive, Ruiz collects worms in cans and sells them for fish bait.
Although multinational oil companies are nibbling the bait of exploration possibilities, foreign investment continues to be deterred by the government's refusal to even partially devalue the grossly overvalued kyat.
Ortega is the tough, firebrand ex-guerrilla who doesn't miss a chance to bait the U.S. government, while Ramirez is the cool, moderate-toned, polished intellectual.
Low stock book values also spurred buying, and while foreign institutional investors were taking the bait, he said. "Japanese institutional investors are very, very chicken because they received huge damages from this crash," he said.
Tongue in cheek, he announced he would use haggis - a Scottish delicacy consisting of chopped entrails and oatmeal cooked in the lining of a sheep's stomach - as bait to lure the creature to the surface.
With an immensely long pole, he flicks out an infinitesimal bait, whisks out a minute fish, and drops it into a bucket, where he cares not if it lives or dies.

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