Word Meanings - POCK-PITTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pockmarked; pitted.

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• PITTLE-PATTLE
  To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. Latimer.
• PITTED
  Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue. (more info) 1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
• PITTA
  Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidæ. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are
• POCKMARKED
  Marked by smallpox; pitted.
• PITTACAL
  A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
• POCKMARK
  A mark or pit made by smallpox.
• PITTER
  A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
• PITTER-PATTER
  A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.
• PITTANCE
  pietanza, LL. pitancia, pittantia, pictantia; perh. fr. L. pietas 1. An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole. "A good pitaunce." Chaucer. One half only of this pittance was ever given him
• SPITTLY
  Like spittle; slimy.
• LICK-SPITTLE
  An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.
• EUPITTONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• SPITTER
  One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
• SPITTED
  1. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit. 2. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. Bacon.
• SPITTOON
  A spitbox; a cuspidor.
• SPITTLE
  See JONSON
• EUPITTONE
  A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid.
• POCK-PITTED
  Pockmarked; pitted.