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Show FIEi mology, and imagine them formed b pumps and fyringes, whereby the fuétio or attraétion is caufed ; an embolus chance There was never yet philofophe That could endure the toothach patiently However they have writ the ftile of Gods And made a pi/b at chance or fufferance She frowned an PO Shake/p Wher Pits upo Pope Pi'sMIRE. #. /o [myna, Saxon; pifmiere Dutch.] An ant; an emmet His cloaths, asatoms might prevail Might fita pifmire or a whale 2. Abyfs I chargethe pifing conduit run nothing but claret Diyd The wanton boys would pifs upon your grave Prssitz. /. [fro the- verb.] « Urine Pr'ssasep. #. /. A yellow flower gro ing in the grafs PrsseurnT. adj. Stained with urine Pista'e¢uro. z. /. [pifacke, Fr. piftacchi Italian; piffachia, Latin. The pifachio is of an oblong figure, pointed a both ends, about half an inch in length ; the kerne is of & green colour and a foft an ftance, muc unétuous fub like the pulp of an almend pleafant tafte: piffachios were known to th cients, and the Arabians call them peftuc of anan Jfefuch, and we fometimes fiffich nuts Hill Piftackios, fo they be good, and not mufby, joine with almonds, are an excellent neurither Bacon PISTE. n. /. [French. The track o tread a horfeman makes upon the groun , _ he goes over Pistiria‘rion. n. /o [ piftillum, Latin. The a& of pounding in a mortar Th beft diamond w hav are comminuble and {o far from breaking hammers that they fub O Lord Browwn' V:u'ga;- Errours Prstor. n. /. [pifol, piftolet, Fr. - fmall handgun Three watc the door wit biffols tha Clarendon , Quickfilver difcharged from a piff/ will h plerce through a parchment. Brozon's Vulgar Err A woman had a tubercle in the great canthus o the eye, of the bignefs of a pifto/-bullet. Wifeman How Verres is lefs qualify'd to fteal Z0 PU'sToL. @, a. [ piftoler, French. tlo make hi lighter for the journey Dryden Py s TOLET. n. /. [diminutive of piffal. A little pifto] Thofe unlickt beat-whelps, unfil'd piffolets Pllsh'at' more than cgnr.xon-flws, availsor lets. Donne bEON. 7.J. [ piffon, Fr. able part in feyera 'The move machines as i me leftI becom Now luck for us, and a kind hearty pit For he who pleafes, never fails of wit Dryden 6 7 8 T 1 [Pis, peis, old French; from peftus Latin. Any hollow of the body: as the pit of the fltomach; the arm pir A dint made by the finger A mark made by a difeafe PUT S v To prefs into hollows An anafarca, a fpecies of dropfy, is charaerife by the fhining and_foftnefs of the fkin, whic gives way to the leaft impreffion, and remains pitze for fome time Sharp 2. To mark with {fmall hollows, as by th fmall pox Pi'rararT. n. /. [probably from pas }as, Or patte patte, French. 1. A flutter; a palpitation A lion meets him, and the fox's heart went pitapat L'Eftrange z. A light quick ftep Now I hear the pitapat of a pretty foot throug the dark alley: no, 'tis the fon of a mare that' broke loofe an munchin upo the melons Dryden PITCH. . /. [pic, Saxon ; pix, Latin. 1. The refin of the pine extracted b fire and infpiffated They that touch pitch will be defiled. Prowerbs A rainy vapou Comes on as blacke as pitch Chapman Of air and water mixed together, and confumed with fire, is made a black colour; as i T I fhall difburden him of many hundred piffoles o Let Cully, Cockwood, Fopling charm the pit And in their folly fhew the writer's wit Dryden Young fhoot with a piftol PIST.O LE. 2 /. [piffole, French. . o of many countries and many degrees of value fcor 5. The middle part of the theatre With fword and piftol, than with wax and feal Milton Make him glad, at leaft, to qui His vi¢tory, and fly the pit Hudibras They managed the difpute as fiercely as tw game-cocks in the pir Locke on Education thould iffue out. Shake[p. Merry Wives-of Wind|c 0 fhot of the cottage Shakefpeare's Macketb 4. 'T'he area on which cocks fight; whenc the phrafe, to fly the piz non The whole body of the horfe paffed within pifo/ think n charcoal, oil, pitch, and links Peacham A veffel {mear'd round with pircb 2 [From picts French Chapman Down they fell Driv'n headlong from the pitch of heav'n, dow Into this deep Milton's Paradife Loft Others expeétation was raifed to a higher pirc than probably it would Hammond Cannons fhoot the highe The lower we let down thei Alcibiades was one of th notwithftanding he lived a was at the higheft pitch 3. Higheft rife pirches breeches Hudibras beft orators of his age a time when learnin Addifon Not ufed Skinner. An Lovely concord and meft facred peac and faft friendfhip breeds Weak fhe makes ftrong, and firong things doe increafe Till it the pirch of higheft praife exceeds Spenfer How high a pitch his refolution foars Skakefp Arm thy heart, and fill thy thought To mount aloft with thy imperial miftrefs And mount her pitche Shakefpeare's Titus Andron Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch I have, perhaps, fome fhallow judgment To bafe declenfion and loath'd bigamy Shake/p Shakefp 4. State with refpect to lownefs or height From this high pitch let us defcen A lower flight; and fpeak of things at hand. Mik By how much from the top of wond'rous glery Strongeft of mortal men To loweft pitch of abject fortune thou art fall'n Milton 5. Size ftature That infernal monfter having caf His weary foe into the living well >Gan high advance his broad difcolour'd breaf Above his wonted pirch Spenfer Were the whole frame here It is of fuch a fpacious lofty pitch Your roof were not fufficient to contain it Shak It turn'd itfelf to Ralpho's fhape So like in perfon garb, and pirch *Twas hard t' interpret which was which. Hudibr 6. Degree rate To overcome in battle, and fubdu Nations, and bring home {poils, with infinit Manflaughter, fhall be held the higheft pirc Of human glory Milton Our refident To From Venice is come And hath left the ftatefman behind him Talks at the fame pitch Is as wife, is as rich And juft where you left him, you find him. Dexb Princes that fear'd him, grieve ; concern'd to fe No pitch of glory from the grave is free Waller Evangelical innocence, fuch as the gofpel accepts though mingled with feveral infirmities and defeéts yet amounts to fuch a pirch of righteoufnefs, as w call fincerity South ‘When the fun's heat is thus far advanced, 'tis bu juft come up to the pitch of another fet of vegetables, and butgreat enough to excite the terreftria particles, which are more ponderous Woodward Zo PITCH w. a. preterite pitched par ticiple pitched anciently pight Picur. [appicciare, Italian. Se 1. To fix; to plant On Dardan plains the Greeks do pitc Their brave pavilions Shak. Tiroilus and Creffida Sharp ftakes pluckt out of hedges They pitched in the ground Shakefp. Henry V1 He counfelled him how to hunt his game ‘What dart to caft, what net, what toile to pitch Fa Mahometes pitched his tents in a little Milton degree of elevation or height Doth nourifh virtue The deathlefie mufes, undertake, maintaines a pirc abov A beauty waining, and diftreffed widow Seduc'd the pitch and height of all his thought like them that go down into the pits Pfs xxviii. 1 mit unto piffillatiun, and refift not an o-dinary peftle frefh water 3. The grave animal water My fpleen is at the little rogues, it would ve one more to be knocked on the head with a pifspet than a thunder bolt Pope int profundity Into what pit thou feet From what height fallen Shake[peare One afs piffes, the reft pifs for company. L'Efr Once poffefs'd of what with care you fave tur Meet me i' th' morning pifen To make water fea-fhor us Czfar Get you gone And from the pit of Achero caterpillars, an Mortimer French v. a. [piffer th Sh by percolation of the falt through the fand; bu in fome places of Africa, the water in fuch pit will become brackifh again Bacon Prior Prejudicial te fruit are pifmires mice Dutch. Than tarry till they pufh us fhook his head and [/fld at every line of it never man' eye may behold my body Shake[peare Our enemies have beat us to the pit It is more worthy to leap in ourfelve - g0 Pisu. w. #. [from the interjection. To exprefs contempt That greate worke, unleffe the feede of Jove All mortall powers Tumble me into fome loathfome pit Spettator He turned over your Homer B /onnl P1Ts Saxon. 1. A hole in the ground I faid a thin whe cried pifb that I ftole To PISS FE Whe the vi€to Had conquer'd Thebes, he pitch'd upon th plai His mighty camp Diyden's Knight's Tale To Chaflis® pleafing plains he took his way There pitch'd his tents and there refolv'd to ftay D‘, The trenches firft they pafs'd, then took their w Where their proud foes in pirch'd pavilions lay 2. To order regularly In fetting down the form of cdmmon prayer there was no need to mention the lea ofa fit, o the unfitnefs of an ignorant minifter, more tha tha he whic defcribet the .manne ho t pitc |