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

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.

The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.

Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.

Pious; devout. [Obs.] The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif.

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.

Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.

or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith. Enterprises of great pith and moment. Shak. Pith paper. Same as Rice paper, under Rice.

900 cubic centimeters, and resembling in form that of the Neanderthal man. Also [pl. -thropi],

A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.

Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinæ, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.

Full of pith. [R.] W. Browne.

In a pithy manner.

The quality or state of being pithy.

Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble. Dryden. "Pithless argumentation." Glandstone.

Pithy; robust. [R.] "Pithsome health and vigor." R. D. Blackmore.

Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.