PITHOLE
PIT'HOLE, noun A mark made by disease.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PITHY
PITH'Y, adjective Consisting of pith; containing pith; abounding with pith; as a pithy substance; a pithy stem.1. Containing concentrated force; forcible; energetic; as a pithy ...
PITIABLE
PIT'IABLE, adjective Deserving pity; worthy of compassion; miserable; as pitiable persons; a pitiable condition.
PITIABLENESS
PIT'IABLENESS, noun State of deserving compassion.
PITIED
PIT'IED, participle passive Compassionated. [See the verb, to pity.]
PITIFUL
PIT'IFUL, adjective [See Pity.] Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a heart to feel sorrow and sympathy for the distressed. James 5:11. 1 Peter 3:8. [This is the proper ...
PITIFULLY
PIT'IFULLY, adverb With pity; compassionately.Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts.1. In a manner to excite pity.They would sign and groan as pitifully as other men.2. Con...
PITIFULNESS
PIT'IFULNESS, noun Tenderness of heart that disposes to pity; mercy; compassion.1. Contemptibleness.
PITILESS
PIT'ILESS, adjective Destitute of pity; hardhearted; applied to persons; as a pitiless master.1. Exciting no pity; as a pitiless state.
PITILESSLY
PIT'ILESSLY, adverb Without mercy or compassion.
PITILESSNESS
PIT'ILESSNESS, noun Unmercifulness; insensibility to the distresses of others.
PITMAN
PIT'MAN, noun The man that stands in a pit when sawing timber with another man who stands above.PIT'-SAW, noun A large saw used in dividing timber, and used by two men, one of w...
PITTANCE
PIT'TANCE, noun [The word signifies primarily, a portion of food allowed to a monk. The Spanish has pitar, to distribute allowances of meat, and pitancero, a person who distribu...
PITUITARY
PITU'ITARY, adjective [Latin pituita, phlegm, rheum; Gr. to spit.]That secretes phlegm or mucus; as the pituitary membrane.The pituitary gland is a small oval body on the lower ...
PITUITE
PIT'UITE, noun [Latin pituita.] Mucus.
PITUITOUS
PITU'ITOUS, adjective [Latin pituitosus.] Consisting of mucus, or resembling it in qualities.
PITY
PITY, noun [The Latin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages unite pity and piety in the same word, and the word may be from the root of compassion; Latin patior, to suffer....
PIVOT
PIV'OT, noun A pin on which any thing turns.
PIX
PIX, noun [Latin pyxis.] A little box or chest in which the consecrated host is kept in Roman catholic countries.1. A box used for the trial of gold and silver coin.
PIZZLE
PIZ'ZLE, noun In certain quadrupeds, the part which is official to generation and the discharge of urine.
PLACABILITY
PLACABIL'ITYPLA'CABLE, adjective [Latin placabilis, from placo, to pacify; probably formed on the root of lay. See Please.]That may be appeased or pacified; appeasable; admittin...
PLACABLE
PLA'CABLE, a. [L. placabilis, from placo, to pacify; probably formed on the root of lay. See Please.]That may be appeased or pacified; appeasable; admitting its passions or irri...
PLACABLENESS
PLA'CABLENESS, noun [from placable.] The quality of being appeasable; susceptibility of being pacified.
PLACARD
PLAC'ARD, noun Properly, a written or printed paper posted in a public place. It seems to have been formerly the name of an edict, proclamation or manifesto issued by authority,...
PLACATE
PLA'CATE, verb transitive [Latin placo, to appease.]To appease or pacify; to conciliate.
PLACE
PLACE, noun1. A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing...
PLACE-MAN
PLA'CE-MAN, noun One that has an office under a government.