Definition of Bait

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Definition of Bait

Bait

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

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

A light or hasty luncheon.

To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

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

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

To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

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Bait Quotations

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
Les Brown

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Mike Tyson

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
Sam Waterston

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton

Bait Translations

bait in Dutch is aas, lokaas
bait in Italian is adescamento, esca
bait in Spanish is aliciente, cebo
bait in Swedish is agn (om fisk), bete, hetsa

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