morsure
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French morsure, from Latin mordere, morsum (“to bite”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
morsure (countable and uncountable, plural morsures)
- The act of biting.
- 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit:
- all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “morsure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
morsure f (plural morsures)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “morsure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Participle edit
morsūre