Pitch :: Pitch (n.) 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..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) See Pitchstone.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) 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..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) 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..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) 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..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) Height; stature.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) 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..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) 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..

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

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

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) 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..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates..

Pitch-black :: Pitch-black (a.) Black as pitch or tar.

Pitch-dark :: Pitch-dark (a.) Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.

Pitch-faced :: Pitch-faced (a.) 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..

Pitch-ore :: Pitch-ore (n.) Pitchblende.

Pitchblende :: Pitchblende (n.) A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.

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

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