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pithy(dictionary)

Raleigh (sh) and pithy (medicine)


Raleigh (sh)




City (pop., 2000: 276,093), capital of North Carolina, U.S. It was selected as the state capital in 1788 and was laid out in 1792.

It is a major retail shipping point for eastern North Carolina and a wholesale distributing point for Food stores. Manufactures include textiles, electronic equipment and Computers, and processed foods. Along with Durham and Chapel Hill, Raleigh is part of North Carolina's Research Triangle
an area of cultural, scientific, and educational institutions that includes Duke University and the University of North Carolina.


pithy (medicine)


pithy


1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. "This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed." (Dryden) "In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.

<zoology>" (Addison) Pithy gall, a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

Origin: Pithier; Pithiest.

Source: Websters Dictionary