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- English Word Pitching Definition The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
- English Word Pitching Definition A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
- English Word Pitchstone Definition An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
- English Word Pitchwork Definition The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
- English Word Pitchy Definition Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
- English Word Pitchy Definition Smeared with pitch.
- English Word Pitchy Definition Black; pitch-dark; dismal.
- English Word Piteous Definition Pious; devout.
- English Word Piteous Definition Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
- English Word Piteous Definition Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
- English Word Piteous Definition Paltry; mean; pitiful.
- English Word Pitfall Definition A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.
- English Word Pitfalling Definition Entrapping; insnaring.
- English Word Pith Definition The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
- English Word Pith Definition The spongy interior substance of a feather.
- English Word Pith Definition The spinal cord; the marrow.
- English Word Pith Definition Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.
- English Word Pith Definition To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.
- English Word Pitheci Definition A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.
- English Word Pithecoid Definition Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.
- English Word Pithecoid Definition Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular, or to the higher apes of the Old World, collectively.
- English Word Pithful Definition Full of pith.
- English Word Pithily Definition In a pithy manner.
- English Word Pithiness Definition The quality or state of being pithy.
- English Word Pithless Definition Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.
- English Word Pithsome Definition Pithy; robust.
- English Word Pithy Definition Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
- English Word Pithy Definition Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
- English Word Pitiable Definition Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
- English Word Pitied Definition of Pity