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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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 Zool., a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).
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