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Webster 1913 Edition
Backbite
Back′biteˊ
,Verb.
T.
[2d
back
, n. + bite
.] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Spenser.
Back′biteˊ
,Verb.
I.
To censure or revile the absent.
They are arrant knaves, and will
backbite
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Backbite
BACK'BITE
,Verb.
T.