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heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

sell or offer for sale from place to place

the action or manner of throwing something; "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

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"

set to a certain pitch; "He pitched his voice very low"

lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball"

erect and fasten; "pitch a tent"

fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

sell or offer for sale from place to place

the action or manner of throwing something; "his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

set to a certain pitch, as of an instrument or one's voice; "He pitched his voice very low"

any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.

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., to preserve them.

See Pitchstone.

To cover over or smear with pitch.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

To set or fix, as a price or value.

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

Height; stature.

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

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.

The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.

To settle.

To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.

The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.

The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.

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., to preserve them.

See Pitchstone.

To cover over or smear with pitch.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

To set or fix, as a price or value.

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

Height; stature.

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

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.

The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.

To settle.

To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.

The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.

To settle.

To set the pitch of.

To throw; fall or plunge downward.

To rise and fall alternately at the bow and stern, as a ship.

To cover or treat with pitch.

Point or degree of elevation.

The degree of descent; slope, as of a roof.

The highness or lowness of a tone.

A toss; throw.

A thick, sticky substance obtained from tar or turpentine; the resinous sap of pines.

The solid black sticky substance obtained from boiled tar; a plunging forward or down; as, a headlong pitch from a rock; tossing motion, as of a ship in a storm; degree or rate; as, the highest pitch of excitement; slope; as, the pitch of a roof; the degree of a musical note, or the tone of a voice; distance between the centers of two gear teeth; the act or manner of throwing or tossing; a cast.

To smear with boiled tar; throw or fling; cast headlong; set to a keynote; to fit, or set in order; fix in or on the ground; as, to pitch a tent.

To settle; fall headlong; as, to pitch forward; encamp; rise and fall, as a ship; fix the choice: with upon.

A resinous substance obtained from tar after the volatile substances have been expelled by boiling. See pix.

The solid black shining substance obtained by boiling down common tar.

To smear with pitch.

To pick or strike with a pike: to throw: to fix or set in array: to fix the tone.

To settle, as something pitched: to come to rest from flight: to fall headlong: to fix the choice: to encamp: to rise and fall, as a ship.

Any point or degree of elevation or depression: degree: degree of slope: a descent: (mus.) the height of a note: (mech.) distance between the centres of two teeth.

Black, sticky resin.

Degree of elevation; descent.

To settle; fix; fall headlong; rise and fall.

To smear or fill with pitch.

To threw; toss; fix; fix the tone.

A thick black substance obtained by boiling down tar.

Any point or degree of elevation; highest rise; size; stature; degree; rate; descent; slope; elevation of the key-note of a tune.

To smear or pay over with pitch.

To throw or thrust, primarily with a long pointed object; to fix; to plant; to throw at a point; to throw headlong; to throw with a fork; to set the key-note of a tune in music.

To settle; to fall headlong; to plunge; to fall; to encamp; to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship.

The thick black substance obtained by boiling down common tar; the resinous juice of the pine or fir-tree.

To smear or cover with pitch; to blacken; to obscure.

To fling or throw; to plant or set, as a camp or tent; to throw, as at a point; to cast forward; to ascertain by trial the key-note of a piece of music; to fix choice; to rise and fall, as a boat or ship on the water; to come to rest from flight; to plunge or fall headlong.

Colophonia-p. Black, see Pinus sylvestris-p. Burgundy, see Pinus abies-p. Canada, see Pinus Canadensis.

A black substance derived from tar.

The substance left behind in the distillation of tar. It is a shiny, black, solid substance which, on the application of moderate heat, becomes viscous and adhesive. It consists of fixed resin and volatile resinous principles. It was formerly official in the Br. Ph. as pix (pix nigra or pix arida).

n. [Latin, Greek] A thick, black, sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar;—a viscid resinous substance obtained by incision from the bark of the silver fir and other pine trees.

n. [French] A point or peak;—the highest rise; extreme point; greatest altitude;—height in size or stature;—degree of ascent; rate of advance;—place or position attained;—degree of elevation of the voice, or of an instrument, &c.;—the point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; descent; slope.