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AUCTION PITCH, a card game which is a popular variation of All Fours (<?.».). The name is derived from the rule that the first card played, or pitched, is the trump suit, and that the eldest hand has the privilege of pitching it or of selling out to the highes ...

... ont (a political opponent), as especially skilful in the arts of 8 94 AUCKLAND— AUCTION PITCH corruption and in overcoming political prejudices. He resigned in 1782, but in the following year he took office again as vicetreasurer of Ireland under the coalition ...

... eldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operati ...

... ter, cheaper and lighter, if less permanent, are tanks of wood bolted together, pitched internally. Glass bell-jars, useful in particular cases, should generally have their sides darkened, except when required for observation. Provision should always be made f ...

... as far north as 65°. Shipbuilding is carried on, and the forests yield timber, pitch and tar. Excellent cattle are raised in the district of Kholmogory on the Dvina, veal being supplied to St Petersburg. Gold is found in the districts of Kola, naphtha and sal ...

ARYTENOID (or arylaenoid; from Gr. apivaiva, a funnel or pitcher), a term, meaning funnel-shaped, applied to cartilages such as those of the larynx.

... eks; and by some ancient classical writers the name of pissasphaltum (iri<r<ra, pitch) was also sometimes employed. The asphalt of the Dead Sea (known as Locus Asphallites) received considerable notice from early travellers, and Diodorus the historian states t ...

... ed by a long ground swell. In consequence of the swell, the ship is continually pitching in a somewhat irregular way, the oscillations up and down oeing sometimes great and sometimes small. An observer on board of her would notice no motion except this. But, s ...

... n of throwing the sledge, jumping, " wrastling," stool-ball (cricket), running, pitching the bar, shooting, playing loggcts, " nine holes or ten pins," " football by the shinnes," leap-frog, morris, shove-groat, leaping the bonfire, slow-ball (golf), and many ...

... m both in the sky and on the ground and dedicated it. Within its limits he then pitched a tent, in which he sat down with covered head, asked the gods for a sign, and waited for an answer. As the augur looked south he had the east, the lucky quarter, on his le ...

... in 1896 that minerals containing uranium, and particularly the mineral known as pitchblende, had the power of affecting sensitive photographic plates enclosed in a black paper envelope when the mineral was placed on the outside, as 'See J. J. Thomson, Proc. Ro ...

... ectrophorus in one form consisted of a disk of non-conducting material, such as pitch or resin, placed between two metal sheets, one being provided with an insulating handle. For the pitch or resin may be substituted a sheet of glass, ebonite, indiarubber or a ...

... indirect, should be increased, and that the fanning of them should be put up to auction at Rome. By this arrangement the provincials were ignored, and everything was left in the hands of the capitalists. From this time dates the existence of the equestrian ord ...

... uring the early years of the contest the influence of the papacy reached a high pitch and made itself felt in the crusading movement, which received its first impetus from Pope Urban II., who appealed to Europe at the council of Clermont in 1095 to recover the ...

... or Schellen-trommel) , a popular instrument of percussion of indefinite musical pitch, used for marking the rhythm in dance or bacchanalian music. The tambourine consists of a flat wooden or metal ring, over one end of which is stretched a parchment or vellum ...

... nating purposes. These tars are intimately related to bitumen, asphalt, mineral pitch and petroleum. Wood Tar. — Wood tar, known also as Stockholm and as Archangel tar, is principally prepared in the great pine forests of central and northern Russia, Finland a ...

... it is important to notice the three characteristics of a musical sound, namely, pitch, loudness and quality. The pitch of a musical sound depends on the number of cycles passed through by the fluctuations of the pressure per unit of time; the loudness depends ...

... didymium. Helium is present, and the mineral is slightly less radio-active than pitchblende. It has been examined for new elements. Miss Evans (Journ. Chem. Soc., 1908, 93, p. 666) obtained what is possibly a new element, whilst M. Ogawa (Journ. Coll. Sci. Tok ...

... dance of meal and vegetables, the diet being strictly confined to meat. Tolstoy pitched his tent in the village of Karalieck, where the primitive life among the Bashkir nomads exactly suited his habits and disposition. He had a faculty for making himself at ho ...

... 4, and lutanist to the Chapel Royal in 1715. It is used for determining musical pitch (see PITCH), and also in certain physical experiments (see SOUND).

... e heat of the French war excitement, kept the Federalist policy up to its first pitch. Out of Congress the execution of the objectionable laws the Laws. had taken the shape of political persecution. Men were arrested, tried and punished for writings which the ...

... in small wares. Probably the name was given to a broker who sold such goods by auction, holding them up to pubh'c view as is the manner of auction-rooms.