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To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak.

To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]

p. p. of Twitch. Chaucer.

imp. of Twitch. Chaucer.

To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows. Hudibras.

ig. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax. Gain twist, or Gaining twist (Firearms), twist of which the pitch is less, and the inclination greater, at the muzzle than at the breech. -- Twist drill, a drill the body of which is twisted like that of an auger. See Illust. of Drill. -- Uniform twist (Firearms), a twist of which the spi…

in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch.

same time; omnipresent. -- U*biq"ui*tous*ly, adv. In this sense is he ubiquitous. R. D. Hitchcock.

Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.

A motor starter provided with an underload switch.

rov. Eng.] Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

imp. of Underpitch.

Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]

Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

To unbitch; to unharness. [Colloq.] Tusser.

ide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.

An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is us…

Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.