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y. "Pious hearts." Milton. "Pious poetry." Johnson. Where was the martial brother's pious care Pope.

coin, and calling "Heads or tails;" hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be careless or trust to luck about it. "To play pitch and toss with the property of the country." G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck.

g to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.

A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. [Obs.] Carew.

To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless. "Nay," quod this monk, "I have no lust to pleye." Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. Sir W. Temple.

tion of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.

t; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.

ming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish. [Obs.] Carew.

A careless person; a trifler. [R.]

Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.

e; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. Spenser.

To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26.

vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter. Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for maki…

A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building.

mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. Pope.

The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew.

Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They [ancient philosophers] treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution. J. H. Newman.

Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course." Landor.

inters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.