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board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

icine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

in naval warfare on account of their destructive effect on a ship's rigging. -- Chain stitch. See in the Vocabulary. -- Chain timber. (Arch.) See Bond timber, under Bond. -- Chain wales. (Naut.) Same as Channels. -- Chain wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Closed chain, Open chain (Chem.), terms applied to the chem…

Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

due, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak.

he wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

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

St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

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.

A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

ompound 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…

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