Flirt-gill (n.) A woman of light behavior |
Gill (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration |
Gill (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom. |
Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl |
Gill (n.) The flesh under or about the chin. |
Gill (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. |
Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. |
Gill (n.) A leech. |
Gill (n.) A woody glen |
Gill (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint. |
Gill (n.) A young woman |
Gill (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma) |
Gill (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. |
Gill-flirt (n.) A thoughtless, giddy girl |
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. |
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 |
gill branchia | respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water |
external gill | occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians |
gill slit branchial cleft gill cleft | one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes |
gill arch branchial arch gill bar | one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians |
gill net | a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills |
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 |
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 |
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 |
longleaf pine pitch pine southern yellow pine Georgia pine Pinus palustris | large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs, bark is red-brown deeply ridged, an important timber tree |
pitch apple strangler fig Clusia rosea Clusia major | a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers |
ground ivy alehoof field balm gill-over-the-ground runaway robin Glechoma hederaceae Nepeta hederaceae | trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets, naturalized in North America, sometimes placed in genus Nepeta |
gill fungus | a basidiomycete with gills |
gill lamella | any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus |
gill | a United States liquid unit equal to fluid ounces |
gill | a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to fluid ounces or . cubic centimeters |
total darkness lightlessness blackness pitch blackness black | total absence of light, they fumbled around in total darkness, in the black of night |
fever pitch | a state of extreme excitement, the crowd was at fever pitch |
asphalt mineral pitch | a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation, consists mainly of hydrocarbons |
pitch tar | any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue |
gear pitch | set the level or character of, She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience |
pitch | set to a certain pitch, He pitched his voice very low |
pitch | lead (a card) and establish the trump suit |
pitch in dig in | eat heartily, The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in |
lam into tear into lace into pitch into lay into | hit violently, as in an attack |
pitch | hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin |
deliver pitch d | throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball, The pitcher delivered the ball |
flip toss sky pitch | throw or toss with a light motion, flip me the beachball, toss me newspaper |
pitch set up | erect and fasten, pitch a tent |
lurch pitch shift | move abruptly, The ship suddenly lurched to the left |
cant cant over tilt slant pitch | heel over, The tower is tilting, The ceiling is slanting |