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Breakfast cereal made by Post
"Marshmallow Alpha-Bits", introduced in 1990, contained frosted alphabet-shaped corn cereal bits and marshmallows. This variation of the original Alpha-Bits cereal
Alpha-Bits
64-bit RISC instruction set architecture
Alpha microprocessors Alpha (originally Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by
DEC_Alpha
Operation in computer graphics
and can allocate fewer bits to encode low-alpha areas. The same “limitations” of lower quantisation bit depths such as 8 bit per channel are also present
Alpha_compositing
Computer architecture bit width
register format is 80 bits wide, while the general-purpose registers are 32 bits wide. In contrast, the 64-bit Alpha family uses a 64-bit floating-point data
64-bit_computing
American businesswoman (1887–1973)
Beta Epsilon, which, in 1969, became the New York Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Since Post had borne only girls, she referred to the fraternity
Marjorie_Merriweather_Post
Number of bits used to represent a color
depth, also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component
Color_depth
Stages in development and support of computer software
stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the final version, or "gold", is released to the public. Pre-alpha refers to the early
Software_release_life_cycle
American consumer foods brand
Mills in the United Kingdom and Ireland) Waffle Crisp 40% Bran Flakes Alpha-Bits Beep Beep (with the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner as mascots) BlueBerry
Post_Consumer_Brands
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character
Duck in Alpha-Bits". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2024. "Marshmallow Alpha Bits Cereal
Daffy_Duck
Windows Bitmap image file format family
24 bits per pixel (bpp). Contemporary DIB Headers allow pixel formats with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bits per pixel (bpp). GDI+ also permits 64 bits per
BMP_file_format
Technology used in CPUs
never" bits for both privileged and unprivileged mode and at level 2 have a single "execute never" bit. As of the Fourth Edition of the Alpha Architecture
NX_bit
Breakfast cereal
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Weetabix
Breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Grape-Nuts
Fictional music group
Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Vintage Old 1970's Post Alpha Bits and Honeycombs Cereal Commercial with free record". YouTube. 18 June 2013
The_Archies
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character
Bunny Songfest) Dave Barry (Pre-Hysterical Hare) Hal Smith (Post Cereal Alpha-Bits commercials, Tang commercials, Dog Gone People, What's My Lion?, Kool-Aid
Elmer_Fudd
Computer security technique
(attacked bits per attempt of main executable entropy) A h {\displaystyle A_{h}} (attacked bits per attempt of heap base entropy) α {\displaystyle \alpha } (attempts
Address space layout randomization
Address_space_layout_randomization
Truly Alpha-Bits cereal 1964–early 1970s postman (voiced by Jim Nabors) Alpha-Bits Wizard 1970s–1980s Alfie the Alpha-Bits Cereal Wonder Dog 1980s Alpha 2000s–2021
List of American advertising characters
List_of_American_advertising_characters
– Ralston Alpen – Weetabix Limited Alpen No Sugar – Weetabix Limited Alpha-Bits – Post Cereals (1958–2021) The Amazing Spider-Man Cereal – Kellogg's (2012)
List_of_breakfast_cereals
American businessman (1854–1914)
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
C._W._Post
Brand of peanut butter
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Peter_Pan_(peanut_butter)
American radio broadcaster
free cut-out records of Archies songs on the backs of Post Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereals. Ingram also worked for cable channel HBO in the mid-1980s, mostly
Dan_Ingram
Image compression file format
specification for lossless image compression of 24-bit (8 bits per color RGB) or 32-bit (8 bits per color with 8-bit alpha channel RGBA) color raster (bitmapped)
QOI_(image_format)
Family of lossless-compression image file formats
Significant Bits (sBIT)"Grayscale images are the simplest; sBIT then contains a single byte indicating the number of significant bits in the source
PNG
Season of television series
is provided by corporate sponsoring from LEGO, Juicy Juice, and Post Alpha-Bits, and by a Ready-to-Learn grant from the U.S. Department of Education through
Arthur_season_6
Basic unit of quantum information
Furthermore, a set of n bits can be represented by n binary digits, simply by concatenating the representations of each of the bits, whereas a set of n qubits
Qubit
Breakfast cereal
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Bran_flakes
Nabisco brand of chocolate chip cookie
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Chips_Ahoy!
Computer graphics algorithm
ETC2 when measured at 2 and 3.56 bits per texel. For HDR textures, it produces results comparable to BC6H at 8 bits per texel. The algorithm decouples
Adaptive scalable texture compression
Adaptive_scalable_texture_compression
Graphics designing computer by Pixar
packet, flag is 4 low bits of byte 2, count is top 4 bits of byte 2 (top bits) combine with 8 bits of byte 1 (low bits) create 12 bit count. Flag have values:
Pixar_Image_Computer
RGB color model with an opacity channel
there are more than 8 bits per channel (such as 16 bits or floating-point), the channels are stored in RGBA order, even if 8-bit channels are stored in
RGBA_color_model
Season of television series
is provided by corporate sponsoring from LEGO, Juicy Juice, and Post Alpha-Bits, and by a Ready-to-Learn grant from the U.S. Department of Education through
Arthur_season_5
Type of two-dimensional barcode
most 3 bit errors out of the 5 data bits. There are a total of 15 bits in this BCH code (10 bits are added for error correction). This 15-bit code is
QR_code
Pasta shaped like alphabet letters
pasta canned in tomato sauce. It was later reintroduced by Heinz in 2005. Alpha-Bits List of pasta List of pasta dishes SpaghettiOs Food portal "A history
Alphabet_pasta
Roasted-grain beverage popular as a coffee-substitute
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Postum
Brand of frozen foods
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Birds_Eye
Breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Golden_Crisp
Texture compression algorithm
into 128 bits of output, consisting of 64 bits of alpha channel data (two 8-bit alpha values and a 4×4 3-bit lookup table) followed by 64 bits of color
S3_Texture_Compression
Breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Post_Toasties
Type of matrix barcode
pattern. Format information is built as 18-bit sequence containing 6 data bits, 12 error correction bits calculated using the (18, 6) Extended BCH code
Rectangular_Micro_QR_Code
American consumer packaged goods holding company
Grape-Nuts Gravy Train Great Grains Honey Bunches of Oats Honeycomb Kibbles 'n Bits Pebbles Peter Pan peanut butter Premier Protein Raisin Bran Shredded Wheat
Post_Holdings
Base memory unit handled by a computer
design, in addition to bit, are listed below. Byte denotes a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel
Word_(computer_architecture)
Breakfast cereal containing raisins and bran flakes
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Raisin_bran
Raster graphics file format
itself permits any pixel bit depth up to 255, of which up to 15 bits can be dedicated to an alpha channel; however, the only bit depths supported in practice
Truevision_TGA
9Lives (1979–1980, with Duck Soup Produckions) Aflac (2004) Air Jordan Alpha-Bits American Express (1998) Astral Paint AT&T AutoNation (2016) Boomerang
List of Warner Bros. Animation productions
List_of_Warner_Bros._Animation_productions
Ionizing radiation particle of two protons and two neutrons
Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to the nucleus
Alpha_particle
Breakfast cereal made by Post
1965, owned by Post Holdings. It consists of honey-flavored corn cereal bits in a honeycomb shape. At the end of 2006, Post changed the formula for Honeycomb
Honeycomb_(cereal)
Windows icon file format
The bits per pixel might be set to zero, but can be inferred from the other data; specifically, if the bitmap is not PNG compressed, then the bits per
ICO_(file_format)
Computer workstations
the name suggests, the AlphaStations were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaStations comprise Tru64 UNIX
AlphaStation
Data used for bitwise operations
with a 0. Example: Masking on the higher nibble (bits 4, 5, 6, 7) while leaving the lower nibble (bits 0, 1, 2, 3) unchanged. 10010101 10100101 OR 11110000
Mask_(computing)
American breakfast cereal company
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
MOM_Brands
Discontinued breakfast cereal made by Post
Retrieved February 5, 2013. "[Post] Taste of Memories, Oreo O's with Marshmallow Bits : 250g (8,8oz)". eBay. Retrieved July 11, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated
Oreo_O's
Breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Uncle_Sam_(cereal)
Series of server computers
and HP. AlphaServers were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaServers are Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX)
AlphaServer
American director
continue to give Sullivan various auditions. In 1970, he was cast in an Alpha-Bits Cereal commercial, earning over $7,000. He continued to obtain small roles
Kevin_Rodney_Sullivan
American producer of chocolate
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Walter_Baker_&_Company
Number of nonzero symbols in a string
given set of bits, this is the number of bits set to 1, or the digit sum of the binary representation of a given number and the ℓ₁ norm of a bit vector. In
Hamming_weight
Defunct cereal brand owned by Post Foods
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Erewhon_Organic
American maker of energy bars and related products
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
PowerBar
Chocolate breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
CoCo_Wheats
Method of storing color
the bits of the two bytes is ignored or set aside for an alpha channel, and the remaining 15 bits are split between the red, green, and blue components of
High_color
Breakfast cereal made by Post
contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a
Pebbles_(cereal)
Microprocessor
West. Each port consisted of two 39-bit unidirectional links operating at 800 MHz. 32 bits were for data and 7 bits were for ECC. The network router also
Alpha_21364
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Clarence_Birdseye
Breakfast cereal made by Post
by Post Consumer Brands, which contains maple syrup–flavored corn cereal bits in a waffle shape. It was first launched in 1996. In 2013, Post introduced
Waffle_Crisp
Manufacturer of various food products
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Ralcorp
Microsoft operating system family
that does not support 32-bit platforms. The 64-bit versions of Windows NT were originally intended to run on Itanium and DEC Alpha; the latter was used internally
Windows_NT
Computer color depth
assign 3 bits to red, 3 bits to green and 2 bits to blue, as the human eye is less sensitive to blue light. This creates a so called 3-3-2 8-bit color image
8-bit_color
British food company
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Weetabix_Limited
Color in digital images
channels, channels are usually encoded in as few bits as possible. Typical values are 8 bits per channel or 16 bits per channel. Indexed color effectively gets
Channel_(digital_image)
1964 American TV series or program
by actor Gerry Matthews. There was also a postman named Lovable Truly (Alpha-Bits), a young Asian boy named So-Hi (Rice Krinkles), and Rory Raccoon (Post
Linus_the_Lionhearted
Statistical function
{\displaystyle \log |S|} bits, is as concise as the shortest one-part code of x {\displaystyle x} in K ( x ) {\displaystyle K(x)} bits. This can be easily
Kolmogorov_structure_function
Breakfast cereal made from whole wheat
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Shredded_wheat
Breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Honey_Bunches_of_Oats
64-bit extension of x86 architecture
changes in the 64-bit extensions include: 64-bit integer capability All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 32 bits to 64 bits, and all arithmetic
X86-64
Line of computers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation
architecture, the Alpha AXP (later renamed Alpha), and their own Alpha-based microprocessor, the DECchip 21064, a high performance 64-bit design capable
VAX
Breakfast cereal made from wheat
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Shreddies
Type of computing error
technology 256 kilobit DRAMS could have clusters of five or six bits flip from a single alpha particle. Modern DRAMs have much smaller feature sizes, so the
Soft_error
Data operation used in computer graphics
a 1-bit mask are used. As the mask is 1-bit, there is no possibility for partial transparency via alpha blending. A loop that examines each bit in the
Bit_blit
Breakfast cereal made by Post
Attune Foods Dakota Growers Other Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar Former Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O
Honey_Ohs!
American actor (born 1955)
in the 2005 film Hostage. In 2006, he appeared in the crime/drama film Alpha Dog, opposite Sharon Stone. In 2007, he appeared in the thriller Perfect
Bruce_Willis
American animation studio
Archive in Germany. Commercials Acura Integra (1994) AirTouch Cellular Alpha-Bits Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau (1981) Brown & Polson (1980s)
Kurtz_&_Friends
American Dungeons & Dragons web series
October 6, 2021. The money could refer to subscription, ad revenue, and bits these channels gathered during the period. Critical Role tops the chart with
Critical_Role
Toolkit for manipulation of images
size. In the binary formats, PBM uses 1 bit per pixel, PGM uses 8 or 16 bits per pixel, and PPM uses 24 or 48 bits per pixel: 8/16 for red, 8/16 for green
Netpbm
RISC microprocessor
The Alpha 21264, also known by its code name, EV6, is a RISC microprocessor developed by Digital Equipment Corporation launched on 19 October 1998. The
Alpha_21264
Multisampling computer graphics technique
pixels. Alpha-to-coverage converts the alpha component output from the pixel shader into a temporary coverage mask, where the number of bits set is a
Alpha_to_coverage
American multinational technology company
January 14, 2022. "Five year history graph of (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock". ZenoBank. AlphaTrade. September 29, 2009. Archived from the original on October 30, 2008
Microsoft
Two-dimensional matrix barcode
usually square in shape and composed of square "cells" which represent bits. Depending on the coding used, a "light" cell represents a 0 and a "dark"
Data_Matrix
2012 studio album by 3rd Line Butterfly
There" ("다시 가보니 흔적도 없네") 4:23 11. "Cucurucucú Paloma" ("쿠쿠루쿠쿠 비둘기") 6:14 12. "Jeju Wind 20110807" ("제주바람 20110807") 8:03 13. "Alpha-Bits" ("끝말잇기") 1:27
Dreamtalk
Concertino punchh Pump up Cinderella Story こはる。feat.碧 & しなもんしゅがー☆ & 未々子 new stage Takuma Tsuda bristle grass plus alpha bittersweet U-ske Summer splash Spar
List_of_Pump_It_Up_songs
Computer data measurements and scales
means 8 bits. A more accurate, but less commonly used name for 8 bits is octet. Commonly, a decimal SI metric prefix (such as kilo-) is used with bit and
Orders_of_magnitude_(data)
Slang terms for men
Alpha male and beta male are terms used to describe a perceived social hierarchy among men, originally derived from concepts in animal ethology. In a
Alpha_and_beta_male
Releases of Debian GNU/Linux, a computer operating system
Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port". Phoronix. Michael Larabel (31 December 2024). "Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V &
Debian release version history
Debian_release_version_history
2025 Hungarian film
her husband David. During the fight, Cassius kills the mate of the pack's alpha, causing the latter to pursue them with even more zeal. With their escape
Silent_Zone
Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States
1950. Deadwood is the home of Alpha Farm [wd], an intentional community established in 1972. The farm owned the Alpha Bit, a café and book/gift store in
Deadwood,_Oregon
Second order recursive digital linear filter
m bits, the product has n+m bits. These products are typically accumulated in a DSP register, the addition of five products may need 3 overflow bits; this
Digital_biquad_filter
2023 mid-range smartphone by Samsung Electronics
G780x (Galaxy S20 FE) SGH-G800 SM-G800x (Galaxy S5 Mini) G810 G850x (Galaxy Alpha) G885x (Galaxy A8 Star/A9 Star) G887x (Galaxy A8s/A9 Pro (2019)) G890A (Galaxy
Samsung_Galaxy_M34_5G
Type of spatial anti-aliasing
bits set in a coverage mask for a pixel should be proportionate to the actual area coverage of the fragment. This will result in some coverage bits being
Multisample_anti-aliasing
Nonprofit foundation in Hamburg, Germany
"Decentralized communication networks", "Enduring freedom of information", "Alpha-BIT-isation" (media and technology education), "Informational Self-Determination"
Wau_Holland_Foundation
1995 operation targeted at computer hackers
system of an Oregon Cellular Telephone company. Jeremy Golle Cushing or Alpha Bits, of Huntington Beach, California, was charged with trafficking cloned
Operation_Cybersnare
Digital camera
Alpha 58 also known as Sony A58 (model name SLT-A58) is a mid-range digital camera from Sony's Alpha SLT camera line, introduced in 2013. The Alpha 58
Sony_Alpha_58
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
Girl/Female
Arabic
Respectable
Girl/Female
Indian
Loving
Boy/Male
African, Australian, Chinese, French, Latin, Swedish
First Letter of the Greek Alphabet; Leader
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker and seller of spurs, bits, and other small metal attachments to harness and tackle. Compare Lorimer.
Boy/Male
Hindu
First letter of the greek alphabet
Male
African
(ox); the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Girl/Female
English American
Healer.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Heart bits
Boy/Male
Hindu
Heart bits
Girl/Female
Indian
Little
Boy/Male
Tamil
First letter of the greek alphabet
Surname or Lastname
Swiss German
Swiss German : probably an altered form of Swiss Büchi. However, in The Mennonite Encyclopedia Bitsche (or Bitschi) is proposed as the origin. See also Beachy.English : variant of Peach.Swiss Surnames shows numerous Büchis (mainly in Zürich and Toggenburg) and several variants (Bücheli, Büchele, Bücheler, Büchler, etc.), whereas Bitsch(e) is listed four times and was apparently taken to Switzerland from Germany at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Peachey is most common in Mifflin Co., PA; other variants appear in various communities.
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
Healer; With Healing Power
Girl/Female
Greek American
Firstbom.' The first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Little; Collection of Many Small Things
Girl/Female
Tamil
Little
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
Boy/Male
Afghan, Arabic
Hard Worker
Female
English
Feminine form of English unisex Page, PAIGE means "page; young servant."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Most superior, Lord Rama
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Ford.
Girl/Female
Indian
Destroyer of poverty, Goddess Lakshmi
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Goddess Durga
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name POLIKWAPTIWA means "butterfly sitting on a flower."
Girl/Female
Muslim
Angel
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Hebrew
God Sees
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
A Portion of the Gods
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
ALPHA BITS
n.
The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
n.
A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
n.
The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
n.
A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.
v. t.
To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.
n.
Alt. of Alpia
n.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
n.
The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.
v. t.
To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.
n.
A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.
n.
One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps."
v. t.
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
n.
The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
n.
A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.
a.
Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
n.
Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
n.
A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
n.
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
n.
The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.