Pip. The bud of a flower (B.).—N.W.
*Pish! or Pishty! A call to a dog (A.). In co. Clare, Ireland, this is the order to a horse to stop.
Pissabed. Leontodon Taraxacum, L., Dandelion, from its diuretic effects.—N. & S.W.
*Pissing-candle. The least candle in the pound, put in to make up the weight (Kennett's Paroch. Antiq.). Cp. Norman French peiser, to weigh.—Obsolete.
Pit. (1) n. A pond.—N.W. (2) n. The mound in which potatoes or mangolds are stored (Agric. of Wilts, ch. vii).—N. & S.W. (3) v. 'To pit potatoes,' to throw them up in heaps or ridges, in field or garden, well covered over with straw and beaten earth, for keeping through the winter.—N. & S.W.
Pitch. (1) n. A steep place.—N.W. (2) n. 'A pitch of work,' as much of the water-meadows as the water supply will cover well at one time (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii).—S.W. (3) n. The quantity of hay, &c., taken up by the fork each time in pitching (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. iv).—N. & S.W. (4) v. To load up wheat, &c., pitching the sheaves with a fork (S.).—N. & S.W. (5) v. To fix hurdles, &c., in place (Bevis, ch. xxiii).—N. & S.W. (6) v. To settle down closely.
'Give the meadows a thorough good soaking at first ... to make the land sink and pitch closely together.'—Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii.
(7) v. To lose flesh, waste away. Still in use in N. Wilts.
'The lambs "pitch and get stunted," and the best summer food will not recover them.'—Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii.
(8) v. To set out goods for sale in market. 'There wur a main lot o' cheese pitched s'marnin'.'—N. & S.W. (9) v. To pave with Pitchin, q.v.—N.W. (10) v. Of ground, to have an uneven surface. 'The ground this end o' the Leaze pitches uncommon bad.'—S.W. (Hants bord.)