Definition of pit

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Pit (v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another..

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Spitalhouse :: Spital (n.) A hospital.
Fovea :: Fovea (n.) A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
Precipitate :: Precipitate (v. i.) To hasten without preparation.
Monotone :: Monotone (n.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch..
Condense :: Condense (v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize..
Well :: Well (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit.
Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th
Bouri :: Bouri (n.) A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
Capitolian :: Capitolian (a.) Alt. of Capitolin.
Pruner :: Pruner (n.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold..
Pitiless :: Pitiless (a.) Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition..
Lungoor :: Lungoor (n.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India..
Key :: Key (n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
Spitter :: Spitter (n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just..
Lamentable :: Lamentable (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
Precipitate :: Precipitate (v. i.) To dash or fall headlong.
Saltation :: Saltation (n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery..
Triune :: Triune (a.) Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.
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