Vocabulary : Pitching to Pithecanthropus

Pitching : of Pitch ;; The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball. ;; The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. ;; A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Pitch-ore : Pitchblende.
Pitchstone : An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
Pitchwork : The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
Pitchy : Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch. ;; Smeared with pitch. ;; Black; pitch-dark; dismal.

Piteous : Pious; devout. ;; Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. ;; Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. ;; Paltry; mean; pitiful.
Pitfall : A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.
Pitfalling : Entrapping; insnaring.
Pith : The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue. ;; The spongy interior substance of a feather. ;; The spinal cord; the marrow. ;; Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith. ;; To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.
Pithecanthropus : A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. ;; A genus consisting of an primate (P. erectus) apparently intermediate between man and the existing anthropoid apes, known from bones of a single individual found in Java (hence called Java man) in 1891-92. These bones include a thigh bone of the human type, two molar teeth intermediate between those of man and the anthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicating a brain capacity of about 900 cubic centimeters, and resembling in form that of the Neanderthal man. ;; an animal of this genus.

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