The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . half of this pittance was even given him in money. Macantay. 3. A small portion or quantity ; a mcjrsel. Our souls shall no longer remain obiio.\ic)us to hertreacherous llesh and i-ebellions passions, nor ratioeinateand grow knowing by little parcels and pittances. Kveti/n, True Religion, I. above the mines most precious oreThe least small pittance of bare mold they prize,Hcooped from the sacred earth wliere his dear relics ;rrdttworth, Ecclcs
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . half of this pittance was even given him in money. Macantay. 3. A small portion or quantity ; a mcjrsel. Our souls shall no longer remain obiio.\ic)us to hertreacherous llesh and i-ebellions passions, nor ratioeinateand grow knowing by little parcels and pittances. Kveti/n, True Religion, I. above the mines most precious oreThe least small pittance of bare mold they prize,Hcooped from the sacred earth wliere his dear relics ;rrdttworth, Ecclcs. Homiets, i. 32. pittancer (pitan-sfer), u. [< F. pitancier (=Sp. piliiiicrro = Pg. pit(inrciro), < pitance, pit-tance: see )iittdiicc.\ The officer in a monas-tery who distriljuteil the iiillance at certain;i|p|Miinted festivals. pitted (piled), a. [< ////I -1- -n/2,] Markedlliiekly with pits or small di^prcssieins: as, aface /lilted by siiia,ll]i(i.\ ; specKically, in tmf.,having pits or pniii-talions, as I lie walls ofmany cells; in ::(iiil., having purictalions,as a surface; foveolato; arcolate Pitted teeth,. (~Hd World Ant-thrush (///ilr ,!u uthi. 4518 teeth with pits in the enamel, resulting from defective de-velopment.—Pitted tissue. Aee proseiKhifina.— Pittedvessel. See (piter), V. i. [A dim. var. of patter.^To murmur; patter. ^Vhen somraera heat hath dried up the springs,Anil when his pitterintf strearaes are low and tlun, Greene (Parlis Ueliconia, III. 67). pitter2 (piter), H, [<j)i<l-I--fr2.] 1. One whoremoves ]iits or stones from fruit.— 2. An im-plement for removing the stones from such fruitas plums and peaches; a fruit-stoner. [U. S,] pitterarot, • Same as pederero for an original MS. Accompt of Arms delivered up atInverary in obedience of the Act of Parliament for secur-ing the peace of the Highlands, 1717, mention is made ofTwo pilteraroes, one broken. N. and Q., 7th ser., VIII. 128. pitticite, «. See
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