0 past simple and past participle of bait --
1 to intentionally make a person angry by saying or doing things to annoy them: --
I suspect he was just baiting me.
Ignore him - he's just baiting you.
2 to make dogs attack an animal for cruel entertainment: --
In the past, bear-baiting was a common form of entertainment in the UK .
3 to put food on a hook (= curved piece of wire) or in a special device to attract and catch a fish or animal: --
Numbers caught in each age category were estimated for the baited trap experiments from the above percentages.
The average spleen mass of voles in the baited blocks decreased over time, but this did not occur in the control blocks.
The frequency with which voles were infested by mites was higher in baited blocks.
Closed thin and bold dashed lines indicate the boundary of the study area and the baited section, respectively.
The chimpanzees cannot see which container is being baited as a result of the placement of the screen.
In this experiment, there was also no significant difference between a trap baited with carbon dioxide and one baited with foot odour.
Therefore, coproantigen-positive but egg-negative faeces were supposed to be excreted by the foxes with the pre-patent stage of infection in the baited section.
Captured mature females tended to leave blocks with unbaited traps in numerically larger proportions than blocks with baited traps (fig. 4a).
