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
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
Mark Ruffalo
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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