Category:Pithy

Pith"y, a. [compar. Pithier; superl. Pithiest.]

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. Addison. Pithy gall (zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on Blackberry canes by a small gallfly (diastrophus nebulosus).