Definition of pit

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Pit (n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively..

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Head :: Head (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.
Sententious :: Sententious (a.) Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.
Groundling :: Groundling (n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches..
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..
Splenetic :: Splenetic (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
Matron :: Matron (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital..
Chef-d''oeuvre :: Chef-d'oeuvre (n.) A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc..
Decrepitude :: Decrepitude (n.) The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Cycas :: Cycas (n.) A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago..
Ministry :: Ministry (n.) Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt..
Sarracenia :: Sarracenia (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former
Jove :: Jove (n.) The chief divinity of the ancient Romans; Jupiter.
Spittle :: Spittle (n.) See Spital.
Laconical :: Laconical (a.) Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form..
Heart :: Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish h
Slabber :: Slabber (v. t.) To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle..
Inveteracy :: Inveteracy (n.) Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.
Spittly :: Spittle (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit..
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