The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bite \Bite\ (b[imac]t), v. t. [imp. Bit (b[i^]t); p. p.
   Bitten (b[i^]t"t'n), Bit; p. pr. & vb. n. Biting.] [OE.
   biten, AS. b[imac]tan; akin to D. bijten, OS. b[imac]tan,
   OHG. b[imac]zan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. b[imac]ta,
   Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to cleave, Skr. bhid to
   cleave. [root]87. Cf. Fissure.]
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   1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the
      thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth;
      as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
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            Such smiling rogues as these,
            Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. --Shak.
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   2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some
      insects) used in taking food.
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   3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,
      in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the
      mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." --Shak.
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   4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.
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   5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the
      anchor bites the ground.
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            The last screw of the rack having been turned so
            often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned
            and turned with nothing to bite.      --Dickens.
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   To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the
      agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.

   To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic
      plates by means of an acid.

   To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of
      contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you
      bite your thumb at us?" --Shak.

   To bite the tongue, to keep silence. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Biting \Bit"ing\, a.
   That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. "A biting
   affliction." "A biting jest." --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

biting
    adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting
           aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting,
           nipping, pungent, mordacious]
    2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used
       especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn:
       biting, bitter]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

165 Moby Thesaurus words for "biting":
   Attic, Siberian, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent,
   acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afflictive, agonizing, algid,
   arctic, asperous, astringent, atrocious, below zero, bitter,
   bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brilliant, brisk, brumal, caustic,
   clear-cut, clever, cold, cold as charity, cold as death,
   cold as ice, cold as marble, corroding, corrosive, cramping, crisp,
   cruel, cutting, distressing, double-edged, driving, droll, edged,
   effective, escharotic, excruciating, facetious, fierce, forceful,
   forcible, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, funny, gelid, glacial,
   gnawing, grave, griping, gutsy, hard, harrowing, harsh, hibernal,
   hiemal, humorous, humorsome, hurtful, hurting, hyperborean,
   ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, imperative, impressive,
   incisive, inclement, ingoing, irritating, jesting, jocose, jocular,
   joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, mordacious, mordant,
   nervous, nimble-witted, nipping, nippy, nose-tickling, numbing,
   painful, paroxysmal, penetrating, piercing, pinching, piquant,
   poignant, pointed, powerful, punchy, pungent, quick-witted,
   racking, rapier-like, raw, rigorous, rough, salt, salty, scathing,
   scintillating, scorching, sensational, severe, sharp, shooting,
   sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sleety, slushy, smart, snappy, sour,
   sparkling, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, sprightly, stabbing,
   stinging, stone-cold, strident, striking, stringent, strong,
   subzero, supercooled, tart, telling, tormenting, torturous,
   trenchant, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic,
   whimsical, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering,
   witty