PITCH  . (I) (0 . Eng. pic, an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of See also:

• LAT

Lat. pix, picis, Gr. vivo—a, 7rirra, allied with Gr . 7rLTVr, See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine-See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree, Lat. pines), the name of various substances of dark See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour and of extremely viscid and tenacious consistency when subjected to See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat . Strictly the See also:

• TERM

term is applied to the resinous substance obtained as a solid residuum by the See also:

• DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

distillation of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood-See also:

• TAR

tar (see TAR), or the non-resinous substance similarly produced from See also:

• COAL

Coal-tar (q.v.) . The name is also applied to the natural See also:

• MINERAL

mineral sub-stances, i.e. See also:

• ASPHALT, or ASPHALTUM

asphalt or See also:

• BITUMEN

bitumen (qq.v.) . (2) A noun of various meanings which are somewhat difficult to connect with the verb from which they apparently must be derived . " To pitch " means primarily to thrust in or See also:

• FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix a stake or other pointed See also:

• OBJECT

object into the ground, hence to See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in a fixed position, set in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast or throw, hence to incline or slope . The See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology is obscure, but it appears in See also:

• NORTHERN

Northern dialects as " pick," of which it may be a variant; there is some difficulty in connecting this See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form with " pick," variant of " See also:

• PIKE
• PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY (1779-1813)

pike " (q.v.) .