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The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." Ludlow. Syn. -- Demand; urgency;

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The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." Ludlow. Syn. -- Demand; urgency; distress; pressure; emergency; necessity; crisis.

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  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • PITCHERFUL
    The quantity a pitcher will hold.
  • PITCHINESS
    Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
  • PITCHFORK
    A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
  • OCCASIONALISM
    The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
  • STRAIT
    A variant of Straight.
  • PITCHWORK
    The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
  • EMERGENCY
    1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill. 2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or
  • STRAITEN
    1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine. Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise. Bacon. In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. Milton. 2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
  • PITCHER
    1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
  • CONJUNCTIONAL
    Relating to a conjunction.
  • PITCH
    See AMERICA (more info) 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.,
  • EXIGENCY
    The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." Ludlow. Syn. -- Demand; urgency;
  • STRAITNESS
    The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
  • CONTINGENCY
    A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected. Syn. -- Casualty; accident; chance. (more info) 1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency."
  • PITCHING
    A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece , the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. (more info)
  • CASUALTY
    Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident. Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. (more info) 1. That which comes
  • DIFFICULTY
    difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
  • OCCASIONABLE
    Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
  • OCCASIONALLY
    In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
  • AUCTION PITCH
    A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
  • WATER PITCHER
    One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
  • UNEMBARRASSMENT
    Freedom from embarrassment.
  • DISTRAIT
    Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
  • SYNCRISIS
    A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. Crabb.

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