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To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. Sir W. Temple. -- To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] Spenser.

A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer. She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. Tennyson.

Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.

A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread. [Colloq.]

A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

abundant among floating ice. -- Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. -- Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master. -- Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water. -- Ice plow, a large tool for groovin…

Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.

To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.

A piece composed or played at first thought; a composition in the style of an extempore piece.

A piece an inch long. By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak.

rrect; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope.

To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.

Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.