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Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce.
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Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
n.
A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
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A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
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Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.
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A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
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A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
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Dotted with small spots of color, or with minute depressions or pits.
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A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
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A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
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Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
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A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes.
v. i.
A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
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A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
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Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
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The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
a.
Having pits or depressions; pitted.
v. t.
To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
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