Pit

s. (pit, Saxon.) 1. A hole in the ground (Bacon). 2. Aby ; profundity (Milton)..3. The grave (Psalms). 4. The.area on which cocks fight (Hudibras). 5. The middle part of the theatre (Dryden). 6. Any hollow of the body: as, éhe pit of ihe stomach; the arm-pit. 7. A dint made by the finger. 8, A mark made by a disease. To Pir.v.a.1.To-pre into hollows (Sharp). 2. 'To mark with hollows, as by the smallpox, Py py