2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "[She] piteous of his case." Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer.
3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser. The most piteous tale of Lear. Shak.
4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." Milton.
Syn.
— Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad;
wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate.
— Pit"e*ous*ly, adv.
— Pit"e*ous*ness, n.
PITFALL
Pit"fall`, n.
Defn: A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
PITFALLING
Pit"fall`ing, a.
Defn: Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
PITH
Pith, n. Etym: [AS. pi; akin to D. pit pith, kernel, LG. peddik. Cf.
Pit a kernel.]
1. (Bot.)