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- English Word Pity Definition A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
- English Word Pity Definition To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
- English Word Pity Definition To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
- English Word Pity Definition To be compassionate; to show pity.
- English Word Pitying Definition of Pity
- English Word Pitying Definition Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.
- English Word Pityriasis Definition A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.
- English Word Pityroid Definition Having the form of, or resembling, bran.
- English Word Piu Definition A little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.
- English Word Pivot Definition A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
- English Word Pivot Definition The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
- English Word Pivot Definition Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
- English Word Pivot Definition The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
- English Word Pivot Definition To place on a pivot.
- English Word Pivotal Definition Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.
- English Word Pivoted Definition of Pivot
- English Word Pivoting Definition of Pivot
- English Word Pix Definition See Pyx.
- English Word Pixie Definition An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
- English Word Pixie Definition A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
- English Word Pixies Definition of Pixie
- English Word Pixy Definition Alt. of Pixie
- English Word Pixy-led Definition Led by pixies; bewildered.
- English Word Pizzicato Definition A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)
- English Word Pizzle Definition The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the bull.
- English Word Placability Definition The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
- English Word Placable Definition Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
- English Word Placableness Definition The quality of being placable.
- English Word Placard Definition A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
- English Word Placard Definition Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.