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.

A little more; as, pi/ allegro, a little more briskly.

To place on a pivot.

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.

See Pyx.

An old English name for a fairy; an elf.

The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the bull.

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.

The quality of being placable.

To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.

To appease; to pacify; to concilate.

The act of placating.

To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.

To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick.

Proud of rank or office.

The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

a reaction by a patient who receives a placebo{2}, in which the symptoms of illness are lessened or an anticipated effect is experienced. Because the placebo{2} itself has no pharmacological activity, this reaction is mediated by the expectations of the patient receiving the placebo{2}; the reaction is considered as an example of the power of suggestion.

In the appointed place.

Having no place or office.

One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

One of the Placentalia.

A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.

Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

Having or producing a placenta.

Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.

Pleasing; amiable.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.

A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.

Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity.

In a placid manner.

The quality or state of being placid.

A decree or determination; a dictum.

Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.

A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.

A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.

A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

One of the Placodermi.

Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.

Same as Placodermi.

An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.

Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.

A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.

Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks. One of the Placoides.

A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.

One of the placoids.

A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.

A stripe of color.

Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.

Having plag/, or irregular enlongated color spots.

A region; country.

Same as plagiarize.

The act or practice of plagiarizing.

One who plagiarizes, or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Kidnaping.

Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.

A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.

Same as Plagiostomous.

One of the Plagiostomi.