Definition of pit

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Pit (n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit..

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Apollyon :: Apollyon (n.) The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon..
Latrine :: Latrine (n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc..
Sempiternal :: Sempiternal (a.) Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end..
Dispiteous :: Dispiteous (a.) Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.
Pity :: Pity (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
Epitaph :: Epitaph (n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis..
Epithet :: Epithet (v. t.) To describe by an epithet.
Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle..
Precipitantly :: Precipitantly (adv.) With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.
Topple :: Topple (v. i.) To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Eupittone :: Eupittone (n.) A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid..
Capitular :: Capitular (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum..
Epitaphic :: Epitaphic (n.) An epitaph.
Excreable :: Excreable (a.) Capable of being discharged by spitting.
Havana :: Havana (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar.
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
Chlorosis :: Chlorosis (n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc..
Upcast :: Upcast (n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft..
Sputter :: Sputter (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A spit.
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