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A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

The body of servants employed in the kitchen. [Obs.] Holland.

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.

A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.

A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.

Eng.] Halliwell. When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. Holland.

The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also lichi, and lychee.] -- lite. See -lith.…

. A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. Ecclus. xiii. 1.

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.

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.