Word Meanings - COCKFIGHTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

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• PITTLE-PATTLE
  To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. Latimer.
• PITTED
  Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue. (more info) 1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
• PITTA
  Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidæ. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• PITTACAL
  A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• FIGHTING
  1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. -- Fighting crab ,
• PITTER
  A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
• PITTER-PATTER
  A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.
• PITTANCE
  pietanza, LL. pitancia, pittantia, pictantia; perh. fr. L. pietas 1. An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole. "A good pitaunce." Chaucer. One half only of this pittance was ever given him
• FIGHTER
  One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. Shak.
• SPITTLY
  Like spittle; slimy.
• LICK-SPITTLE
  An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• EUPITTONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• SPITTER
  One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
• CAMPFIGHT
  A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
• BUSHFIGHTING
  Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
• BUSHFIGHTER
  One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.
• SPITTED
  1. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit. 2. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. Bacon.
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• COCKFIGHTING
  The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.