2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}  (Zo["o]l.),  a  large  rough,  furrowed,  oblong 
  gall,  formed  on  blackberry  canes  by  a  small  gallfly 
  ({Diastrophus  nebulosus}). 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pithy 
  adj  :  concise  and  full  of  meaning;  "welcomed  her  pithy  comments"; 
  "the  peculiarly  sardonic  and  sententious  style  in  which 
  Don  Luis  composed  his  epigrams"-  Hervey  Allen  [syn:  {sententious}] 
  adv  :  in  a  pithy  sententious  manner;  "she  expressed  herself 
  pithily"  [syn:  {sententiously}] 

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