Piss (v. t. & i.) To discharge urine, to urinate.
Piss (n.) Urine.
Pissabed (n.) A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
Pissasphalt (n.) Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
Pist (n.) See Piste.
Pistachio (n.) The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.
Pistacia (n.) The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.
Pistacite (n.) Epidote.
Pistareen (n.) An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.
Pistazite (n.) Same as Pistacite.
Piste (n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
Pistel (n.) Alt. of Pistil
Pistil (n.) An epistle.
Pistic (a.) Pure; genuine.
Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
Pistillaceous (a.) Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil.
Pistillate (a.) Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
Pistillation (n.) The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.
Pistillida (pl. ) of Pistillidium
Pistillidium (n.) Same as Archegonium.
Pistilliferous (a.) Pistillate.
Pistillody (n.) The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.
Pistol (n.) The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver.
Pistoled (imp. & p. p.) of Pistol
Pistoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pistol
Pistol (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.
Pistolade (n.) A pistol shot.
Pistole (n.) The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.
Pistoleer (n.) One who uses a pistol.
Pistolet (n.) A small pistol.
Piston (n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.
Pit (n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
Pit (n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
Pit (n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.
Pit (n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
Pit (n.) Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
Pit (n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
Pit (n.) A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
Pit (n.) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
Pit (n.) See Pit of the stomach (below).
Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
Pit (n.) Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.
Pit (n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
Pit (n.) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
Pit (n.) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
Pitted (imp. & p. p.) of Pit
Pitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pit
Pit (v. t.) To place or put into a pit or hole.
Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
Pit (v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
Pita (n.) A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.
Pita (n.) The plant which yields the fiber.
Pitahaya (n.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.
Pitapat (adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.
Pitapat (n.) A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.
Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
Pitch (n.) See Pitchstone.
Pitched (imp. & p. p.) of Pitch
Pitching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pitch
Pitch (n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.
Pitch (n.) Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Pitch (v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
Pitch (v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
Pitch (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
Pitch (v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value.
Pitch (v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Pitch (v. i.) To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
Pitch (n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
Pitch (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
Pitch (n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Pitch (n.) Height; stature.
Pitch (n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
Pitch (n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Pitch (n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
Pitch (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
Pitch-black (a.) Black as pitch or tar.
Pitchblende (n.) A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.
Pitch-dark (a.) Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
Pitcher (n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
Pitcher (n.) A sort of crowbar for digging.
Pitcher (n.) A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
Pitcher (n.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
Pitcherfuls (pl. ) of Pitcherful
Pitcherful (n.) The quantity a pitcher will hold.
Pitch-faced (a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
Pitchfork (n.) A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
Pitchfork (v. t.) To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
Pitchiness (n.) Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
Pitching (n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Pitch-ore (n.) Pitchblende.
Pitchstone (n.) An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
Pitchwork (n.) The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.