Lambert pine () The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. |
Pine (n.) Woe |
Pine (v.) To inflict pain upon |
Pine (v.) To grieve or mourn for. |
Pine (v. i.) To suffer |
Pine (v. i.) To languish |
Pine (v. i.) To languish with desire |
Pine (n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus. |
Pine (n.) The wood of the pine tree. |
Pine (n.) A pineapple. |
Pine-clad (a.) Alt. of Pine-crowned |
Pine-crowned (a.) Clad or crowned with pine trees |
Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships |
Pitch (n.) See Pitchstone. |
Pitch (n.) To cover over or smear with pitch. |
Pitch (n.) Fig.: To darken |
Pitch (v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose |
Pitch (v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles |
Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. |
Pitch (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of |
Pitch (v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value. |
Pitch (v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation |
Pitch (v. i.) To light |
Pitch (v. i.) To fix one's choise |
Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall |
Pitch (n.) A throw |
Pitch (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. |
Pitch (n.) A point or peak |
Pitch (n.) Height |
Pitch (n.) A descent |
Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins |
Pitch (n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it |
Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. |
Pitch (n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line |
Pitch (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. |
Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. |
Pitch-black (a.) Black as pitch or tar. |
Pitch-dark (a.) Dark as a pitch |
Pitch-faced (a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges |
Pitch-ore (n.) Pitchblende. |
Slash pine () A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies |
Tough-pitch (n.) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. |
Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced |
pitch | the action or manner of throwing something, his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor |
pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
change-up change-of-pace change-of-pace ball off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
overhand pitch | a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder |
submarine ball submarine pitch | a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead |
wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
pitch auction pitch | an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump |
pitch pitch shot | a high approach shot in golf |
pine siskin pine finch Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
pine grosbeak Pinicola enucleator | large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds |
eastern fence lizard pine lizard Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
pine snake | any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods, now threatened |
pine sawyer | large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees |
pine leaf aphid Pineus pinifoliae | a variety of adelgid |
pine spittlebug | North American insect that attacks pines |
pine vole pine mouse Pitymys pinetorum | short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States |
pine marten Martes martes | dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests |
pine-tar rag | baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar, used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip |
pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
pitch | the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration |
concert pitch philharmonic pitch international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
high pitch high frequency | a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches |
low pitch low frequency | a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches |
pitch rake slant | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane, the roof had a steep pitch |
absolute pitch perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
intonation modulation pitch contour | rise and fall of the voice pitch |
tonic accent pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness |
sales talk sales pitch pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
pine nut pignolia pinon nut | edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America |
pitch | a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk), he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors |
Pine Bluff | a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River |
Maine Pine Tree State ME | a state in New England |
Pinaceae family Pinaceae pine family | a family of Pinaceae |
pine pine tree true pine | a coniferous tree |
pine | straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus |
knotty pine | pine lumber with many knots, used especially for paneling and furniture |
white pine | soft white wood of white pine trees |
yellow pine | hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine |
nut pine | any of several pinons bearing edible nutlike seeds |
pinon pine Mexican nut pine Pinus cembroides | a small two-needled or three-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas |
single-leaf single-leaf pine single-leaf pinyon Pinus monophylla | pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems, important as a nut pine |
bishop pine bishop's pine Pinus muricata | two-needled or three-needled pinon mostly of northwestern California coast |
spruce pine Pinus glabra | large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood |
black pine Pinus nigra | large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe |
pitch pine northern pitch pine Pinus rigida | large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, closely related to the pond pine |
pond pine Pinus serotina | large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States, needles longer than those of the northern pitch pine |
stone pine umbrella pine European nut pine Pinus pinea | medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown, widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds |