BAIT Copy link • BAIT 1. v. to furnish a hook, etc., with a bait, escam imponere or obducere (a hook, hamo). To allure by food a fish, etc.; i. e., to bait for: inescare; cibo inescare; cibo allicere. On a journey, subsistere in itinere; iter intermittere (to suspend one’s journey): devertere: deverti: deversari (to turn in for refreshment, etc.): at anybody’s house, ad or apud aliquem: anywhere, ad or in locum. Observe, divertere can not be used except where the parties separate, and some go to one inn, some to another. To bait horses, equorum reficiendorum causa subsistere (after Caes., B. Civ., 2, 42, end): equorum reficiendorum causa apud aliquem, or ad aliquem locum devereari. To set dogs upon, immittere canes alicui or in aliquem. To attack as dogs do, morsu apprehendere; mordicus premere aliquid: morsu appetere aliquem. Figuratively = assail pertinaciously: invadere in aliquem: incursare in aliquem: vexare, agitare, lacessere aliquem. To bait a bear or a bull, ursum or taumm cum canibus committere. 2. s. esca, illecebra (PROP. and IMPROP.): cibus ad fraudem alicujus positus: also, from context, cibus only. To catch with a bait, cibo inescare. BULL-bait. Vid: BULL.