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Inhospitable.

Not pitied.

Impious; wicked. [Obs.] "The life of the unpitous." Wyclif (Prov. xv. 8).

Impiety. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Want of piety. [Obs.]

The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

A pitcher for water.

A whirlpool. [Obs.] "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made fr…

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

To epitomize; to abridge. Franklin.

gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

nt resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.