A South American bird (Guira guira) allied to the cuckoos.

To spin, as a top.

A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.

To perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.

A rough gale of wind.

See Pissasphalt.

See Pis/.

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

Fishing; fishery.

A fisherman; an angler.

Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs. A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.

Capture of fishes, as by angling.

Relating to pisciculture.

Fish culture. See under Fish.

One who breeds fish.

Having the form of a fish; resembling a fish.

A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.

Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.

Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pis/ work.

To express contempt.

The Canada lynx.

A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

An ant, or emmet.

A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.

Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.

Pissasphalt.

Urine.

To waste; to squander; to fritter away; as, he pissed away his opportunity to get the job by arriving late for the interview.

To leave immediately; to scram; -- chiefly British, and sometimes considered vulgar.

A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

Worthless or of no significance.

Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistency of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.

Angered or very annoyed.

Something very difficult or troublesome.

a public urinal, in European countries.

See Piste.

The anacardiaceous tree Pistacia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it. Called also pistachio.

The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiace/, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.

The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio (Pistacia vera), the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (Pistacia Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.

Epidote.

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Same as Pistacite.

The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.

Pure; genuine.

The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.

An epistle.

Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil.

Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.

Same as Archegonium.

Pistillate.

The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.

To shoot with a pistol.

A pistol shot.

The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.

One who uses a pistol.

A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.

To place or put into a pit or hole.

A stop by one of the competing cars in a pit by the side of the racetrack, to take on gasoline, change tires, or perform other maintenance.

A pit; a pockmark.

A thin flat bread that is formed in two layers, to make a pocket into which other foods may be placed.

A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

Black as pitch or tar.

Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.

Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

Pitchblende.

A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.

The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.

Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.

Pious; devout.

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.

Entrapping; insnaring.

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.

A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes.

A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.

Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecin/, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.

Full of pith.

In a pithy manner.

The quality or state of being pithy.

Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.

Pithy; robust.

Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

One who pities.

Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.

Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.

A metal spike having a sharpened point on one end, and a hole through which a rope can be passed on the other; it is driven into the face of a rock cliff during climbing, and used as an anchor point for a rope.

A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.

See Pitapat.

A wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine temporarily.

A large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below.

See regent diamond.

Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittid/. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.

A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.

An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.

Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.

To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.

With, or with the sound of, alternating light beats; as, his heart went pitter-patter.

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.

Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities. Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.

Mucus, phlegm.

Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.

A substance or extract from the pituitary body.

To be compassionate; to show pity.

Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.

A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.

Having the form of, or resembling, bran.