Definition of pithed in English

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Noun Plural: piths
pith - soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
		plant tissue the tissue of a plant
pith - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
		kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, sum, nitty-gritty
		cognitive content, mental object, content the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
		bare bones (plural) the most basic facts or elements; "he told us only the bare bones of the story"
		hypostasis (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
		haecceity, quiddity the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
		quintessence the most typical example or representative of a type
Verb piths, pithing, pithed
pith - remove the pith from (a plant)
		get rid of, remove dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

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pith (Noun)
The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
pith (Noun)
The essential or vital part.
pith (Verb)
To extract the pith from a plant stem or tree.
pith (Verb)
To kill especially cattle or laboratory animal s by cutting or piercing the spinal cord .

pith (n.)
The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
pith (n.)
The spongy interior substance of a feather.
pith (n.)
The spinal cord; the marrow.
pith (n.)
Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.
pith (v. t.)
To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

pith
pith, n. the marrow or soft substance in the centre of the stems of dicotyledonous plants: force or energy: importance: condensed substance: quintessence.—n. Pith′-ball, a pellet of pith.—adv. Pith′ily.—n. Pith′iness.—adj. Pith′less, wanting pith, force, or energy.—n. Pith′-pā′per, a thin sheet cut from pith for paper: rice-paper.—adj. Pith′y, full of pith: forcible: strong: energetic. [A.S. pitha; Dut. pit, marrow.]

pith
A light and soft cellular tissue forming the central core of exogenous trees and plants. In the older parts of the tree the woody tissue often encroaches in and partly obliterates it.
For electrical pith-balls, the pith of the elder, of corn, or, best of all, of sun-flower stems is used.