Definition of Rebite

1. to freshen by acid [v REBIT, REBITTEN, REBITING, REBITES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebite

rebidding
rebids
rebill
rebilled
rebilling
rebills
rebind
rebinding
rebindings
rebinds
rebirth
rebirthings
rebirths
rebit
rebite (current term)
rebites
rebiting
rebitings
rebits
rebitten
rebled
rebleed
rebleeding
rebleeds
reblend
reblended
reblending
reblends
reblent

Literary usage of Rebite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne (1880)
"Again, if, before proceeding to rebite, you should notice certain ... You can then rebite in the tray, or by using pure acid, or by allowing acid at 20° to ..."

2. The Life of James McNeill Whistler by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell (1908)
"But Whistler did not rebite them, and never touched them until long after in England. " A number of plates had never been bitten, and one hot Sunday ..."

3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... is discovered in the same authors (c), which rebite to us Brennus his wasting of Greece, with his violent, but somewhat voluntary, death; ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"It may also be necessary to rebite the whole plate, as when it is thought, or found on actual trial, that the plate is feeble in effect. ..."

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