P I T 
To overcome in battle, and fubdue 
Nations, and bring borne fpoils, with infinite 
Manflaughter, (hall be held the higheft pitch 
Of human glory. Milton’s P.L. 
Princes that fear’d him, grieve; concern’d to fee 
No pitch of glory from the grave is free. Waller. 
Our refident Tom 
From Venice is come, 
And hath left the ftatefman behind him ; 
Talks at the fame pitch, 
Is as wife is as rich, 
And juft where you left him you find him. Denham. 
Pitch, in mufic, implies the elevation or depreftion of 
the general feale. There is no term more common 
among muficians, who have the Roman pitch, the opera- 
pitch, the organ-pitch, the concert-pitch. By the firft it 
is understood a low pitch ; by the fecond, the true or moft 
general pitch ; by the third, a high pitch, as almoft all 
church-organs are pitched high by the builders; and by 
the fourth, a varied pitch, according to the ftate an in¬ 
ftrument is found in by perfons who had never met before. 
Hawkins. —At prefent, the opera-pitch is reckoned the 
fharpeft of all ; and the concert-pitch the true one. 
To PITCH, v. a. To fmear with pitch.—Some pitch 
the ends of the timber in the walls, to preferve them from 
the mortar. Moxon's Mech. Ex .— I pitched over the con¬ 
vex very thinly, by dropping melted pitch upon it, and 
warming it to keep the pitch loft, whilft I ground it with 
the concave copper wetted, to make it fpread evenly all 
over the convex. Newton’s Optics. 
The Trojans mount their Ihips, borne on the waves. 
And the pitch'd veffels glide with eafy force. Dnjden. 
To darken.-The welkin pitch'd with fullen cloud. Addifon. 
The air hath ftarv’d the rofes in her cheeks, 
And pitch'd the lily tindture of her face. Shakefpeare. 
To PITCH, v. a. preterite pitched, participle pitched, 
anciently pight. [appicciare, Ital.] To fix ; to plant.— 
Mahometes pitched his tents in a little meadow. Knolles. 
To Chaftis’ pleafing plains he took his way, 
There pitch'd his tents, and there refolv’d to ftay. Dryden. 
To order regularly.—In fetting down the form of Com¬ 
mon Prayer, there was no need to mention the learning 
of a fit or the unfitnefs of an ignorant minifter, more 
than that he, which deferibeth the manner how to pitch 
a field, Ihould fpeak of moderation and fobriety in diet. 
Hooker. —One pitched battle would determine the fate of 
the Spanilh continent. Addifon on the War. —To throw 
headlong; to call forward.—They would wreftle and 
pitch the bar fora whole afternoon. Spettator. 
They’ll not pitch me i’ the mire, 
Unlefs he bid ’em. Shakefpeare’s Tempejl. 
To pave. 
To PITCH, v. n. To light; to drop. — When the 
fwarm is fettled, take a branch of the tree whereon they 
pitch, and wipe the hive clean. Mortimer. —To fall head¬ 
long : 
The courier o’er the pommel call the knight; 
Forward he flew’, and, pitching on his head, 
He quiver’d with his feet, and lay for dead. Dryden. 
To fix choice ; with upon. —I pitched upon this confedera¬ 
tion, that parents owe their children, not only material 
fubfiftence, but much more, fpiritual contribution to 
their mind. Dighj on the Soul. — Pilch upon the belt 
courfe of life, and cultom will render it the moft eafy. 
Tillolfon. —I tranflated Chaucer, and amongft the reft 
pitched on the Wife of Bath’s Tale. Dryden. 
We think ’tis no great matter which, 
They’re all alike, yet we (hall pitch 
On one that fits our purpofe. Hudibras. 
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To fix a tent or temporary habitation.—They pitched by 
Emmaus in the plain. 1 Mac. iii. 40. 
PITCH'-FARTHING, /. A play (otherwife called 
chuck) of pitching copper money into a round hole.— 
Your various occupations of Greek and cricket, Latin 
and pitch-farthing, may poffibly divert your attention 
from this objedt. Ld. Chejlerfield. 
PITCH'-FORK, f A fork with which corn is pitched 
or thrown upon the waggon.—An old lord in Leicefter- 
fhireamufed himfelf with mending pitch-forks and fpades 
for his tenants gratis. Swift. 
PITCH'-ORE, or Pech'blende. Seethe article Mi¬ 
neralogy, vol. xv. p. 515. 
PITCH'-PIPE, f. An inftrument to regulate the voice, 
and to give the leading note of a tune : ufed by fingers in 
churches.—He had an ingenious fervant always attending 
him with a pitch-pipe, or inftrument to regulate the voice; 
who, whenever he heard his mafter begin to be high, 
immediately touched a foft note ; at which ’tis faid, 
C’aius would prefently abate and grow calm. Spettator, 
N° 228. 
PITCH'-STONE. SeeOPALUS piceus,vol.xvii. p.505. 
PITCH'-TREE. See Pinus. 
PITCHAN'DAH, a fortified pagoda, on the north 
bank of the Cobroon, one mile eaft of Seringhain. 
PITCH'COTT, a village in Buckinghamfhire, fituated 
upon the fummit of a lofty eminence bordering the vale 
of Aylefbury, and about fix miles and a half weft-north- 
weft from that town. The village itfelf confifts of no 
more than five houfes ; not much, therefore, can be faid 
upon that; but the parifh and parifh-church have been 
made the fubjedtof an interefting communication in the 
Gentleman’s Magazine for November 1817. from which 
we fhall make a few extracts. 
The church, chancel, and tower, meafure all toge¬ 
ther, on the outfide, about 26 yards, the latter being 
about 13 feet fquare, and the chancel about 17 or 18 
feet in length. The building is of (tone, with gable- 
roofs to the church and chancel, tiled; but at pre¬ 
fent in very bad condition. The tower is about 40 feet 
in height, without battlements, a double cornice or 
moulding being carried round it, at the fummit. The 
church door-way, on the north fide, has been flopped up, 
as alfo two narrow low entrances into the chancel oppo- 
fite to each other, which, from the accumulation of earth, 
efpecially on the fouthern fide, meafure only five feet in 
height. The chancel is lighted by two narrow-pointed 
windows on each fide, more than half clofed with brick¬ 
work about four feet fix inches by one foot, and one 
larger modernized window at the eaft end. There is a 
door at the weft end of the tower, now entirely difufed; 
the only entrance being under a tiled porch on the fouth 
fide of the church, which bears the date 1662. The chan¬ 
cel is feparated from the body of the church by a parti¬ 
tion, in which is a fmall door, placed there, it is faid, by 
the defire of a former incumbent to exclude the wind ; 
and, if the chancel were then in the fame ftate as at pre¬ 
fent, not without good reafon, for the roof is broken, and 
the walls are cracked. A communion-table there is, 
which, with the decaying rails that enclofe it, are the 
only objedts, befides a fmall ftone-delk affixed dia¬ 
gonally againft the fide of the fouth-weft window, and 
a pifeina in a niche within the rails, to withdraw the at¬ 
tention of an examiner from the damp mofs-grown walls 
and flippery pavement. Near the fouth wall is a large 
brown ftone, without ornament or infeription, which 
tradition fays covers the grave of a bifhop Saunders. 
There is neither pew nor feat in the chancel; but a 
quantity of rotten and decayed matting lies in a heap at 
one quarter, which perhaps once ferved for the commu¬ 
nicants to kneel upon, but is at prefent as inferiorto the 
litter ufed by the neighbouring farmers for their pigs, as 
are the rough uneven (tones on which it lies, to the cleanly 
well-paved floors of their dairies. The door before-men¬ 
tioned being, however, usually kept fliut, the difgraceful 
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