Word Meanings - PITCHINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

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• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• PITCHWORK
  The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• PITCH
  See AMERICA (more info) 1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
• PITCHING
  A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece , the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. (more info)
• PITCH-DARK
  Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
• BLACKNESS
  The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.
• PITCH-FACED
  Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
• PITCHY
  1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch. 2. Smeared with pitch. 3. Black; pitch-dark; dismal. "Pitchy night." Shak.
• PITCH-ORE
  Pitchblende.
• PITCH-BLACK
  Black as pitch or tar.
• PITCHBLENDE
  A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
• SPITCHCOCKED
  Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• SPITCHCOCK
  To split lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.
• UNDERPITCH
  To fill underneath; to stuff. He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.