·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
·vt To darken to obscure. II. Dark ·adj Deprived of sight; blind. III. Dark ·noun The condition of...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
blind. QUITE DARK, stone blind. North. ALMOST DARK, nearly blind. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·noun Height; stature. II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch. III. Pitch ·noun A desce...
(Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence. It is used in a hot state with o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
1) East out of Lower East Smithfield, facing Butcher Row (P.C. 1732, to Elmes, 1831). Called also "...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Shades fitted to instruments of reflection for preventing the bright rays of the sun from hurting th...
·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the...
·adj Black as pitch or tar. ...
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
·noun <<Pitchblende>>. ...
·noun Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake. II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...
Stuck fast, confounded. ...
A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...
A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. ...
A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels. ...
That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot. ...
Is used for paying decks and horizontal work. ...
The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work. ...
♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.) ...
1) South out of the eastern end of High Timber Street to the Thames. In Queenhithe Ward (Horwood, 17...
(Fr. bois d'arc.) A western tree, the wood of which is used to make bows with. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
See chewing of oakum ...
To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.) ...
See Church Passage. ...
See Dark House Lane. ...
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...