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Definition: Abies Canadensis
Pitch
\Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS. pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. ?.]
1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of
ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
to preserve them.
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
--Ecclus.
xiii. 1.
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2. (Geol.) See
Pitchstone.
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Amboyna pitch, the resin of
Dammara australis. See
Kauri.
Burgundy pitch. See under
Burgundy.
Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree
(
Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum.
Jew's pitch, bitumen.
Mineral pitch. See
Bitumen and
Asphalt.
Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal.
Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy
luster.
Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine,
yielding pitch, esp. the
Pinus rigida of North America.
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Hemlock
\Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic,
hymlic.]
1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs
having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the
Cicuta maculata,
Cicuta bulbifera, and
Cicuta virosa
, and the
Conium maculatum. See
Conium.
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Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by
some thought to have been a decoction of
Cicuta virosa
, or water hemlock, by others, of
Conium maculatum
.
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2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America (
Abies Canadensis
or
Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
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The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow.
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3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
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Ground hemlock, or
Dwarf hemlock. See under
Ground.
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