sharpness (of sword, knife, etc.)

an expletive

(Animal) addicted to biting or snapping, snappish, a biter

bite, cut, clip, sever, dissect

bite

will cut

bite

cut, bite

bitten

reduction, lowering of a value

chisling

cutting and clipping, cutting and hacking, pruning, lopping, cutting out, curtailing, scratching, scribbling, cuttings, clippings, chips, scraps, deductions, retrenchments, scrapings, pickings, petty savings, erasures

sharped

a conditional engagement, a deed of conditional sale (stipulating that if the purchase price be not returned within a given period the sale is absolute), a mortgage deed with liability of sale if not redeemed by a stipulated time

cutting, clipping

reaping the harvest and sheaving

respond or react with violent anger

bite

remove the effects of sorcery, oppose, counteract, to wound, cut