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Webster 1913 Edition
Pipe
Pipe
,Noun.
1.
A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds;
“Tunable as sylvan pipe.” as, a shepherd’s
pipe
; the pipe
of an organ. Milton.
Now had he rather hear the tabor and the
pipe
. Shakespeare
2.
Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
3.
A small bowl with a hollow stem, – used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
4.
A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
5.
The key or sound of the voice.
[R.]
Shak.
6.
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The earliest
pipe
of half-awakened birds. Tennyson.
7.
pl.
The bagpipe;
as, the
. pipes
of Lucknow8.
(Mining)
An elongated body or vein of ore.
9.
A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; – so called because put together like a pipe.
Mozley & W.
10.
(Naut.)
A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
11.
[Cf. F.
pipe
, fr. pipe
a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare
to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
Pipe fitter
, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building.
– Pipe fitting
, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe.
– Pipe office
, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc.
[Eng.]
– Pipe tree
(Bot.)
, the lilac and the mock orange; – so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; – called also
– pipe privet
. Pipe wrench
, or Pipe tongs
a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it.
– To smoke the pipe of peace
, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, – a custom of the American Indians.
Pipe
,Verb.
I.
1.
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
We have
piped
unto you, and ye have not danced. Matt. xi. 17.
2.
(Naut.)
To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
3.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
“Oft in the piping shrouds.” Wordsworth.
4.
(Metal.)
To become hollow in the process of solodifying; – said of an ingot, as of steel.
Pipe
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Piped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Piping
.] 1.
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
A robin . . . was
piping
a few querulous notes. W. Irving.
2.
(Naut.)
To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
As fine a ship's company as was ever
piped
aloft. Marryat.
3.
To furnish or equip with pipes;
as, to
. pipe
an engine, or a buildingWebster 1828 Edition
Pipe
PIPE
,Noun.
1.
A wind instrument of music, consisting of a long tube of wood or metal; as a rural pipe. The word, I believe, is not now the proper technical name of any particular instrument, but is applicable to any tubular wind instrument, and it occurs in bagpipe.2.
A long tube or hollow body; applied to the veins and arteries of the body, and to many hollow bodies, particularly such as are used for conductors of water or other fluids.3.
A tube of clay with a bowl at one end; used in smoking tobacco.4.
The organs of voice and respiration; as in windpipe.5.
The key or sound of the voice.6.
In England, a roll in the exchequer, or the exchequer itself. Hence, pipe-office is an office in which the clerk of the pipe makes out leases of crown lands, accounts of sheriffs, &c.7.
A cask containing two hogsheads or 120 gallons, used for wine; or the quantity which it contains.8.
In mining, a pipe is where the ore runs forward endwise in a hole, and does not sink downwards or in a vein.PIPE
,Verb.
I.
We have piped to you, and ye have not danced. Matt.11.
1.
To have a shrill sound; to whistle.PIPE
,Verb.
T.