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

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.

Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.

Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope. His sense was str…

To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.

Full of marrow; pithy.

Filled with spongy pith; pithy. Medullary groove (Anat.), a groove, in the epiblast of the vertebrate blastoderm, the edges of which unite, making a tube (the medullary canal) from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exoge…

A pithy or witty saying; a witticism. [A Gallicism] Here and there turns up a ... savage mot. N. Brit. Rev.

A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

In a pithy manner.

The quality or state of being pithy.

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

g with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! Addison.