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Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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PITCH, n. L. pix Gr. most probably named from its thickness or inspissation L. figo.
1. A thick tenacious substance,the juice of a species of pine or fir called abies picea, obtained by incision from the bark of the tree. When melted and pressed in bags of cloth, it is received into barrels. This is white or Burgundy pitch by mixture with lampblack it is converted into black pitch. When kept long in fusion with vinegar, it becomes dry and brown, and forms colophony. The smoke of pitch condensed forms lampblack.
2. The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated used in caulking ships and paying the sides and bottom.
PITCH, n. from the root of pike, peak.
1. Literally, a point hence, any point or degree of elevation as a high pitch lowest pitch.
How high a pitch his resolution soars.
Alcibiades was one of the best orators of his age, notwithstanding he lived when learning was at its highest pitch.
2. Highest rise.
3. Size stature.
So like in person, garb and pitch.
4. Degree rate.
No pitch of glory from the grave is free.
5. The point where a declivity begins, or the declivity itself descent slope as the pitch of a hill.
6. The degree of descent or declivity.
7. A descent a fall a thrusting down.
8. Degree of elevation of the key-note of a tune or of any note.
PITCH, L. figo, to fix, and uniting pike, pique with fix.
1. To throw or thrust, and primarily, to thrust a long or pointed object hence, to fix to plant to set as, to pitch a tent or pavilion, that is, to set the stakes.
2. To throw at a point as, to pitch quoits.
3. To throw headlong as, to pitch one in the mire or down a precipice.
4. To throw with a fork as, to pitch hay or sheaves of corn.
5. To regulate or set the key-note of a tune in music.
6. To set in array to marshal or arrange in order used chiefly in the participle as a pitched battle.
7. from pitch. To smear or pay over with pitch as, to pitch the seams of a ship.
PITCH, To light to settle to come to rest from flight.
Take a branch of the tree on which the bees pitch, and wipe the hive.
1. To fall headlong as, to pitch from a precipice to pitch on the head.
2. To plunge as, to pitch into a river.
3. To fall to fix choice with on or upon.
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy.
4. To fix a tent or temporary habitation to encamp.
Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. Genesis 31
5. In navigation, to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship passing over waves.
6. To flow or fall precipitously, as a river.
Over this rock, the river pitches in one entire sheet.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Pitch'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/pitch.html.
Entry for 'Pitch'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/pitch.html.