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PIT'EOUS, a. [See Pity .] Sorrowful; mournful; that may excite pity; as a piteou...
PITCH'Y, a. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; like pitch. 1. Smeared with pit...
PITCH'PIPE, n. An instrument used by choristers in regulating the pitch or eleva...
PITCH'ING, ppr. Setting; planting or fixing; throwing headlong; plunging; daubin...
PITCH'INESS, n. [from pitch.] Blackness; darkness. [Little used.]
PITCH'FORK, n. A fork or farming utensil used in throwing hay or sheaves of grai...
PITCH'FARTHING, n. A play in which copper coin is pitched into a hole; called al...
PITCH'ER, n. 1. An earthen vessel with a spout for pouring out liquors. This is ...
PITCH'ED, pp. Set; planted; fixed; thrown headlong; set in array; smeared with p...
PITCH, n. [L. pix; Gr. most probably named from its thickness or inspissation; L...
PIT'APAT, adv. [probably allied to beat.] In a flutter; with palpitation or quic...
PITAHA'YA, n. A shrub of California, which yields a delicious fruit, the Cactus ...
PIT-FISH, n. A small fish of the Indian seas, about the size of a smelt, of a gr...
PIT'-COAL, n. Fossil coal; coal dug from the earth.
PIT, v.t. To indent; to press into hollows. 1. To mark with little hollows, as b...
PIS'TON, n. [L. pinso, the primary sense of which is to press, send, drive, thru...