pitchfork

t. [PITCHFORK, 8.] 1. Lit .: To throw or lift with a pitchfork. 2. Fig .: To throw carele ly, to put suddenly into a position, without regard to fitne ; as, to pitch fork a person into an office. pitch-i-ne , subst. [Eng. pitchy: -ne .] The quality or state of being pitchy; blackne , dark. ne . IMG:content-1148.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Watchmaking : A tool used in placing wheels between the plates of a watch. 2. Mining: A kind of pick used in commencing a hole. pithead indicate that it is probably a vitreous form of quartz-felsite, or of trachyte. Sometimes porphy ritic by the crystallization of feispars or of quartz. Also spherulitic, the spherules being sometimes of large size, and presenting a fibro-radial structure, the result of a partial devitrification. Frequently incloses microliths, which in some of the pitchstones of the island of Arran are grouped in stellate and frond-like forms. Color, mostly blackish-green or dark olive-green. pitchstone-felsite, s. Petrol.: A rock intermediate between the semivitreous pitchstones and the cryptocrystalline fel. sites, and found a ociated with the former, notably near Dresden. pitchstone-porphyry, s. Petrol.: A pitchstone (q. v.) in which quartz and felspar have crystallized out in individuals during the proce of cooling.