The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biting in \Bit"ing in"\ (Etching.)
The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by
means of an acid. See Etch.
--G. Francis.
Usage examples of "biting in".
He seized her arms, hard fingers biting in painfully, but he seemed unaware of it.
The flies were biting in the heat, as foul-tempered as everything else beneath the blistering sun.
There was a thick pad of callus high up on the first fingers of both hands, because this biting in moments of stress was an old, old habit of his, one that went back to childhood.
He made himself try again, biting in a slightly different position.
The wind was still biting in from the north, bringing occasional flakes of snow or a brief rattle of venomous hail.
As the web began dissolving, Katrina said something short and biting in Russian.
The gasoline fumes swirled like a mirage in the heat, and the smell was biting in my throat.