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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8…

th some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.

distinguished from a discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. Rush.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Ex. ii. 3.

erioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak.

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. They that touch pitch will be defiled. Shak.

The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.