Difference between revisions of "Pitch"

<p> PITCH, n. L. pix Gr. most probably named from its thickness or inspissation L. figo. </p> 1. A thick tenacious substance,the juice of a species of pine or fir called abies picea, obtained by incision from the bark of the tree. When melted and pressed in bags of cloth, it is received into barrels. This is white or [[Burgundy]] pitch by mixture with lampblack it is converted into black pitch. When kept long in fusion with vinegar, it becomes dry and brown, and forms colophony. The smoke of pitch condensed forms lampblack. 2. The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated used in caulking ships and paying the sides and bottom. <p> PITCH, n. from the root of pike, peak. </p> 1. Literally, a point hence, any point or degree of elevation as a high pitch lowest pitch. <p> How high a pitch his resolution soars. </p> <p> [[Alcibiades]] was one of the best orators of his age, notwithstanding he lived when learning was at its highest pitch. </p> 2. [[Highest]] rise. 3. [[Size]] stature. <p> So like in person, garb and pitch. </p> 4. [[Degree]] rate. <p> No pitch of glory from the grave is free. </p> 5. The point where a declivity begins, or the declivity itself descent slope as the pitch of a hill. 6. The degree of descent or declivity. 7. A descent a fall a thrusting down. 8. Degree of elevation of the key-note of a tune or of any note. <p> [[Pitch, L]]  figo, to fix, and uniting pike, pique with fix. </p> 1. To throw or thrust, and primarily, to thrust a long or pointed object hence, to fix to plant to set as, to pitch a tent or pavilion, that is, to set the stakes. 2. To throw at a point as, to pitch quoits. 3. To throw headlong as, to pitch one in the mire or down a precipice. 4. To throw with a fork as, to pitch hay or sheaves of corn. 5. To regulate or set the key-note of a tune in music. 6. To set in array to marshal or arrange in order used chiefly in the participle as a pitched battle. 7. from pitch. To smear or pay over with pitch as, to pitch the seams of a ship. <p> PITCH, To light to settle to come to rest from flight. </p> <p> Take a branch of the tree on which the bees pitch, and wipe the hive. </p> 1. To fall headlong as, to pitch from a precipice to pitch on the head. 2. To plunge as, to pitch into a river. 3. To fall to fix choice with on or upon. <p> [[Pitch]] upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy. </p> 4. To fix a tent or temporary habitation to encamp. <p> [[Laban]] with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. &nbsp;Genesis 31 </p> 5. In navigation, to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship passing over waves. 6. To flow or fall precipitously, as a river. <p> Over this rock, the river pitches in one entire sheet. </p>

== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_7030" /> ==

<p> ''''' pich ''''' : The translation of the noun לּפר , <i> ''''' kōpher ''''' </i> , and the verb כּפר , <i> ''''' kāphar ''''' </i> , in &nbsp; Genesis 6:14 and of the noun זפת , <i> ''''' zepheth ''''' </i> , in &nbsp;Exodus 2:3; &nbsp;Isaiah 34:9 . In &nbsp;Genesis 6:14 the words are the ordinary forms for "covering," "cover," so that the translation "pitch" is largely guesswork, aided by the Septuagint, which reads ἄσφαλτος , <i> ''''' ásphaltos ''''' </i> , "bitumen," here, and by the fact that pitch is a usual "covering" for vessels. The meaning of <i> ''''' zepheth ''''' </i> , however, is fixed by the obvious Dead Sea imagery of &nbsp;Isaiah 34:9-15 - the streams and land of [[Edom]] are to become burning bitumen, like the sites of [[Sodom]] and Gomorrah. In &nbsp; Exodus 2:3 <i> ''''' zepheth ''''' </i> is combined with <i> ''''' ḥēmār ''''' </i> , which also means bitumen (&nbsp;Genesis 14:10; see [[Slime]] ), and the distinction between the words (different consistencies of the same substance?) is not clear. </p>