5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me. --Ex. xx. 6.
To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.
PITH : heart, core, center - Hebrews viij.
"Of the things which we have spoken, this is the pith: that we have
such an high priest that is sitten on the right hand of the seat of
majesty in heaven,"
1. (Bot.) 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.
2. (a) The spongy interior substance of a feather. (b) (Anat.) The
spinal cord; the marrow.
3. Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or
essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as,
the speech lacked pith.
nay, (a.) [a contracted word, to deny]
1. No; a word that expresses negation.
I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your lives, ye shall all
likewise perish. Luke xiij.
2. It expresses also refusal.
He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.
[In these senses it is now rarely used; 'no' being substituted.]
3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be
added by way of amplification.
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