An artificial cavity made in the earth by digging; a deep hole in the earth.

A deep place; an abyss; profundity. Into what pit thou seest . From what height fallen.

The grave. Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:3, 9.

The area for cock-fighting; whence the phrase, to fly the pit.

The middle part of a theater.

The hollow of the body at the stomach. We say, the pit of the stomach.

The cavity under the shoulder; as the arm-pit.

A dint made by impression on a soft substance, as by the finger.

A little hollow in the flesh, made by a pustule, as in the small picks.

A hollow place in the earth excavated for catching wild beasts; hence in Scripture, whatever ensnares and brings into calamity or misery, from which it is difficult to escape. Psalm 7:15; Proverbs 22:14; Proverbs 23:27.

Great distress and misery, temporal, spiritual or eternal. Isaiah 38:17-18; Psalm 40:2.

Hell; as the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:1, 3.

To indent; to press into hollows.

To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.

To set in competition, as in combat.