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Tie :: Tie (v. t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature..

Underpight :: Underpight () imp. of Underpitch.

Poonga Oil :: Poonga oil () A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra)..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

Labor :: Labor (n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice..

Pitcherful :: Pitcherful (n.) The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.

Lightwood :: Lightwood (n.) Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

Interval :: Interval (n.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.

Screw :: Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches..

Melodics :: Melodics (n.) The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Jug :: Jug (n.) A pitcher; a ewer.

Send :: Send (v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts..

Pitched :: Pitched (imp. & p. p.) of Pitc.

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