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Pitched; fixed; determined. [Obs.] [His horse] pight him on the pommel of his head. Chaucer. I found him pight to do it. Shak.

nsed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.

A place where a pin is fixed.

[Obs.] Shak. Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; -- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]

A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. Planting of countries like planting of woods. Bacon.

Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.

A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equi…

Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

r of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions (11 Peters (U. S…

A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor.

To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.

Firm; determined; fixed. "A most posed . . . and grave behavior." [Obs.] Urquhart.

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects. Sir M. Hale.

sition (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the d…

A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper…

or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.

public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants. Abbott.

To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently. [Obs.] " Prefixed bounds. " Locke. And now he hath to her prefixt a day. Spenser.

Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.