Pitangus (pitanggus)

[NL. (Swains on, 1827), pitapat (pit'a-pat), adv. [Also pitpat, pitypat, pittypat; a varied reduplication of pat1.] With a quick succe ion of beats; in a flutter; with palpitation. Y. Arch . Lord, how my heart leaps! Pet . 'Twill go pit - a - pat shortly. Fletcher , Loyal Subject, ii. 2. IMG:content-0279.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0280.png:[blocks in formation] Run bow'd with burthens to the fragrant Fat, Tumble them in, and after pit - a - pat Vp to the Waste. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. pita-wood (pēʼtä-wùd), n . The pith-like wood of Furcrea ( Fourcroya ) gigantea , used sometimes in Rio Janeiro as a slow-match, and sometimes to line drawers for holding insects. Pitaya bark. See bark2 and Cinchona . pit - bottom (pit'bot"um), п. In coal - mining , the entrance to a mine and the underground roads in the immediate vicinity, whether at the bottom of the pit or at any point in it beneath the surface at which the cages are loaded. Also pit - eye . [Eng.] Pit cairn i a (pit-kar'ni-ä), n. [NL. (L'Héritier, 1786); named after Archibald Pitcairne (1652 1713), profe or of medicine at Edinburgh.] A genus of monocotyledonous herbs, of the order Bromeliaceæ, type of the tribe Pitcairnieæ, characterized by the terminal raceme with filiform styles and septicidally three-valved capsules. There are about 70 species, natives of tropical America. They bear close-clustered linear short or elongated rigid leaves, generally with spiny margins, and many showy narrow flowers of scarlet, yellow, or other colors, often with large colored bracts. They are considered handsome greenhouse-plants. See Bromeliaceæ. Pitcairnieæ (pit-kar-ni'ē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, Hooker, 1883), pitch1 (pich), v.; pret. and pp. pitched, formerly pight, ppr. pitching. [ Christ us, thi sone, that in this world alighte Upon the cro to suffre his pa ioun, And eek suffred that Long i us his herte pighte. Chaucer, A. В. С., 1. 163. 2. To thrust into the ground, as a stake or pointed peg; hence, to plant or fix; set up; place: as, to pitch a tent or a camp; to pitch the wickets in cricket. Ther the i pight the kynges teynte, by the feirest welle and the moste clere that the i hadde seen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 150. Sharp stakes They pitched in the ground. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 1. 118. Where he spied a parrot or a monkey, there he was pitched ; no getting him away. B. Jonson , Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. The Southern lords did pitch their camp Just at the bridge of Dee. Bonny John Seton (Child's Ballads, VII. 231). After their thorrow view of ye place, they began to pitch them selves upon their land & near their house. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 340. Wickets were pitched at the orthodox hour of eleven First Year of a Silken Reign , p. 84. 3. To fix or set in order; array; arrange; set. A hundrith shippes full shene with sharp men of armys, Pight full of pepull & mony prise knight. a. m. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4056. There was no need that the book [the Book of Common Prayer) should mention either the learning of a fit, or the unfitne of an ignorant minister, more than that he which describeth the manner how to pitch a field should speak of moderation and sobriety in diet. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 31. Having thus pitched the fields, from either part went a Me enger with these conditions. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 135. 4. To fix, as a rate, value, or price; rate; cla ; Whose vulture thought doth pitch the price so high. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 551. They pitched their commodities at what rate they pleased. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 163. 5. To fling or throw; hurl; to : as, to pitch a pike or a dart; to pitch a ball or a penny. He [his horse] pighte him on the pomel of his heed. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1831. Now, if thou strik'st her but one blow, I'll pitch thee from the cliff as far As ever peasant pitched a bar! Scott, L. of the L., iv. 23. IMG:content-0281.png:[blocks in formation] or first tone: as, to pitch a tune high.-8. Το pave roughly; face with stones. A plaine pitched walke subdio, that is under the open Coryat, Crudities, I. 30. ayre. 9. In certain card-games, to lead one of (a certain suit), thereby selecting it as trump.Pitched battle. See battle1. - Pitched work, in mason ry, work in rough stones which are neither thrown down indiscriminately nor laid in regular courses, but let fall into place with approximate regularity, so as to bind one another. It is used in hydraulic engineering for the facing of breakwaters, the upper parts of jetties, etc. II. in trans. 1. To fix a tent or temporary habitation; encamp. Gen. xxx i. 25. Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 21. To come to rest; settle down; sit down; alight. There pitching down, once more adieu, said she, Dull home, which no such seat couldst spread for me. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 19. Take a branch of the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch , and wipe the hive. Mortimer , Husbandry. A bud which... flowers beneath his sight; And, in the middle, there is softly pight A golden butterfly. Keats , Endymion, ii. 3. To fix or decide with on or upon. He's the man I've pitched on My housband for to be. Margaret of Craignargat (Child's Ballads, VIII. 252). Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy. Til lots on . Having pitched upon a time for his voyage, when the skies appeared propitious he exhorted all his crews to take a good night's rest. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 108. 4. To plunge or fall headlong. Thereupon Zed pitched headforemost upon him acro and kicked and crushed as before. the streaming pile, and the couple rolled and pounded W. M. Baker , New Timothy, p. 210. 5. Naut., to plunge with alternate fall and rise of bow and stern, as a ship pa ing over waves. The motion is most marked when running into a head sea.-6. To throw, to , or hurl a mi ile or other object; throw a ball; specifically, in games of ball, to fill the position of pitcher; serve the ball to the batsman.-7. To buck; jump from the ground with the legs bunched together, as a mustang or mule. Sportsman's Gazetteer. See cut under buck 2. - Pitch and payt, pay down at once; pay ready money. Let senses rule; the word is " Pitch and pay "; Trust none. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 3. 51. IMG:content-0282.png:[blocks in formation] The chief actor in the poem falls from some eminent pitch of honour and prosperity into misery and disgrace. Add is on , Spectator, No. 297. To such an absurd pitch do the Moos'lims carry their feeling of the sacredne of women that entrance into the tombs of some females is denied to men. E. W. Lane , Modern Egyptians, I. 224. 3. In acoustics and music: (a) That characteristic of a sound or a tone which depends upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations by which it is produced, a relatively acute or high pitch resulting from rapid vibrations, and a relatively grave or low pitch from slow vibrations. Pitch is therefore coördinate with force, timbre, and duration. It is estimated and stated in terms of the vibration per second of the sounding body. It is ex per i mentally determined either by direct comparison with a standard tuning-fork or by such instruments as the siren. (b) A particular tonal standard or example with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative height: as, concert pitch; French pitch. Various standards have from time to time been used or promulgated-as, for example, cla ical pitch, during the last half of the eighteenth century, for the A next above middle C about 415 to 430 vibrations per second; concert pitch (commonly called high pitch ), used in concert and operatic music during the middle of the nineteenth century, varying for the same A from about 440 to 455 vibrations; French pitch (commonly called low pitch ), the diapason normal adopted by the French Academy in 1859, for the same A 435 vibrations; philosophical pitch, an arbitrary pitch for middle C, obtained by taking the nearest power of 2, that is, 256 vibra pitch tions, or for the next A above about 427 vibrations; Scheib ler's pitch, adopted by the Stuttgart Congre of Physicists in 1834, for the same A 440 vibrations. Specifically-4. The height to which a hawk rises in the air when waiting for game to be flushed, or before stooping on its prey. The greatne of thy mind does soar a pitch Their dim eyes, darken'd by their narrow souls, Cannot arrive at. Fletcher ( and another ), False One, v. 4. 51. Stature; height. So like in person, garb, and pitch . S. Butler , Hudibras, III. iii. 73. 6. Inclination; angle to the horizon.-7. In mech .: ( a ) The distance between the centers of two adjacent teeth in a cog-wheel, measured on the pitch-line, which is concentric with the axis of revolution, and at such a distance from the base of the teeth as to have an equal rate of motion with a similar line in the cog-wheel with which it engages. (b) The distance between the medial lines of any two succe ive convolutions or threads of a screw, measured in a direction parallel to the axis: the pitch of a propeller-screw is the length measured along the axis of a complete turn. (c) The distance between the paddles of a steamship, measured on the circle which pa es through their centers. (d) The distance between the stays of marine and other steam-boilers. (e) The distance from center to center of rivets. (f) The rake of saw-teeth (see rake ).-8. A throw; a to ; the act by which something is thrown or hurled from one or at something. Specifically, in base - ball : ( a ) A throw or serve of the ball to the batter. (b) The right or turn to pitch the ball. 9. A place on which to pitch or set up a booth or stand for the sale or exhibition of something; a stand. [Eng.] In consequence of a New Police regulation, "stands" or " pitches " have been forbidden, and each coster, on a market night, is now obliged, under pain of the lock-up house, to carry his tray, or keep moving with his barrow. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 12. 10. In card - playing , the game all-fours or seven up played without begging, and with the trump made by leading (pitching) one of a selected suit, instead of being turned up after dealing. -11. In mining , a certain length on the course of the lode, taken by a tri but or, or to work on tribute. Also called tribute - pitch . [Cornwall, Eng., chiefly.] -12. In floor - cloth printing , one of the guide-pins used as registering-marks, corresponding to the register-points in lithographic printing.-13. In naval arch ., downward angular displacement of the hull of a ve el, measured in a longitudinal vertical plane at right angles with and on either side of a horizontal transverse axis pa ing through the center of flotation: a correlative of scend (which see).-14. An iron crowbar with a thick square point, for making holes in the ground. Hall i well . Prov. Eng.] - Auction-pitch, a game of pitch in which the player entitled to pitch the trump may sell the privilege to the highest bidder, adding the points bid to his score before play, or may reject all bids and himself lead the play, failure to make as many points as the highest bid reducing the pitcher's score correspondingly. - Gaining pitch, in a screw propeller, a pitch which increases from the leading edge of the wings to the following edge. E. H. Knight. Head of the pitches, in angling . See head . - Natural pitch. See natural. Pitch and hustle. See hustle . Pitch and to . See pitch - and - to .- Pitch hyperbola. See hyperbola . Pitch of an arch, the rise or height of an arch. Pitch of a plane, the angle at which the iron is set in the stock. Common pitch , of 45° from the horizontal line, is used in bench-planes adapted for soft woods; half pitch , or 60°, is used in molding-planes for mahogany and other woods difficult to work; middle pitch , or 55°, is used in molding planes for deal and smoothing-planes for mahogany and woods of like character; York pitch , or 50° from the horizon, is used in bench-planes for mahogany and other hard or stringy woods, and for wainscoting. The pitch of metal-planes and scraping-planes is 80°. Pitch of a roof, the inclination of a roof. It is expre ed in angular measurement, in parts of the span, or in the proportion which the rafters bear to the span. The common pitch has a rafter three quarters the length of the span; the Gothic has a rafter of the full length of the span; the Elizabeth an , a rafter longer than the span; the Greek, an angle of from 12° to 16°; and the Roman, an angle of from 23° to 24°.Pitch of a saw, the inclination of the face of the teeth.