Definitions for piths

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Spelling: [pith]

IPA: /pɪθ/

Piths is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in piths (hipst).

Definitions for piths

noun

1. Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
2. Zoology. the soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc.
3. the important or essential part; essence; core; heart:
4. significant weight; substance; solidity:
5. Archaic. spinal cord or bone marrow.
6. Archaic. strength, force, or vigor; mettle:

verb (used with object)

1. to remove the pith from (plants).
2. to destroy the spinal cord or brain of.
3. to slaughter, as cattle, by severing the spinal cord.

Origin of piths

before 900; Middle English; Old English pitha; cognate with Dutch pit. See pit²

Examples for piths

His conversation when he does not fly off at a tangent is full of pith and idea.

The toasts presented at dessert were distinguished for pith and cordiality.

I had the pith of it all, though I saw the true light—but I was not worthy.

It is the pith and marrow of every substance, every relation, and every process.

I now send you is, as regards thought or pith, as good as any of them.

These wicks of pith he sold about the town in small penny bundles.

This sentence with which he closed contains the pith of the entire letter.

This too is in the form of dialogue, but the argument of the story is in its pith as follows.

Raeburn smiled and penciled a word or two on the letter the pith of a stinging reply.

The sago is separated from the fibres in the pith by the aid of water.