Word Meanings - SOUTHPAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Using the left hand in pitching; said of a pitcher. [Cant]

• Pitchstone
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• Useless
  Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
• Ustulate
  Blackened as if burned.
• Usurpant
  Usurping; encroaching.
• Pitchwork
  The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• User
  One who uses.
• Ustulation
  The act of burning or searing.
• Usurpation
  The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used
• Pitchy
  Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
• Usher
  An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theat
• Usual
  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
• Usurpatory
  Marked by usurpation; usurping.
• Pitch
  A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
• Usable
  Capable of being used.
• Ushered
  of Usher
• Usucaption
  The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.
• Usurpature
  Usurpation.
• Pitched
  of Pitch
• Usage
  The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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