n. 1. a baseball game in which one team's pitchers allow the opposing team only one hit.
Syn. -- one-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 2 hits.
Syn. -- two-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 3 hits.
Syn. -- three-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 4 hits.
Syn. -- four-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 5 hits.
Syn. -- five-hitter [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Syn. -- cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn. -- false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.
Syn. -- American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ Cf. Chatter. ] 1. To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shiver or chatter with cold. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [ Obs. ] Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Cf. AS. cwiþ womb, Icel. kvið, Goth. qiþus, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings. ] (Cookery) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native Indian name. ] (Zool.) The axis deer of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Hind. chi&tsdot_;&tsdot_;ī. ] 1. A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. [ India, China, etc. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Full of chits or sprouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Childish; like a babe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Baseball) a batter who hits safely more frequently when men are on base or the team is behind in the score. [ PJC ]

Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Baseball) A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 5 hits.
Syn. -- 5-hitter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Baseball) A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team four hits; as, he pitched a four-hitter.
Syn. -- 4-hitter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose.
Syn. -- trenchant, vigorous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. aggressive; as, a hard-hitting advertising campaign. Opposite of unaggressive.
Syn. -- high-pressure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Baseball) The batter; as, there are two strikes on the hitter. [ PJC ]

heavy hitter 1. A baseball player who gets many extra-base hits. 2. A person who is very important or is very effective at his profession. [ PJC ]

n. [ vb. n. from hit, v. ] The act of striking one thing against another; as, repeated hitting raised a large bruise
Syn. -- hit, striking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Heb. Khittīm Hittites. ] A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Elec.) (a) A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824). (b) A Crookes tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Baseball) A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits.
Syn. -- no-hit game. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Baseball) A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only one hit.
Syn. -- 1-hitter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Syriac peshîtâ simple. ] The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [ Written also peschito. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ Heb. shittāh, pl. shittīm. ] A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. The wood of the shittah tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wavering; unsettled; inconstant. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Shuttle. ] A shuttle. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shuttlecock. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Instability; inconstancy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The vain shittlenesse of an unconstant head. Baret. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Probably from white; cf. AS. hwitingtreów. ] (Bot.) Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and Viburnum Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The curlew. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hwītel, from hwit white; akin to Icel. hvītill a white bed cover. See White. ] (a) A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl. C. Kingsley. (b) Same as Whittle shawl, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whittle shawl, a kind of fine woolen shawl, originally and especially a white one. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. thwitel, fr. AS. pwītan to cut. Cf. Thwittle, Thwaite a piece of ground. ] A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife. “A butcher's whittle.” Dryden. “Rude whittles.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose. Betterton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Whittled p. pr. & vb. n. Whittling ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to excite with liquor; to inebriate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

“In vino veritas.” When men are well whittled, their tongues run at random. Withals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dexterity with a pocketknife is a part of a Nantucket education; but I am inclined to think the propensity is national. Americans must and will whittle. Willis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A weasel. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun Tuesday. [ 1913 Webster ]