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Webster 1913 Edition
Piping
1.
Playing on a musical pipe.
“Lowing herds and piping swains.” Swift.
2.
Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
Shak.
3.
Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4.
Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; – from the sound of boiling fluids.
Piping crow
, Piping crow shrike
,
Piping roller
(Zool.)
, any Australian bird of the genus
– Gymnorhina
, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen
, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck
. Piping frog
(Zool.)
, a small American tree frog (
– Hyla Pickeringii
) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring. Piping hot
, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot.
[Colloq.]
Milton.
Pip′ing
,Noun.
1.
A small cord covered with cloth, – used as trimming for women’s dresses.
2.
Pipes, collectively;
as, the
. piping
of a house3.
The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
4.
A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
Webster 1828 Edition
Piping
PI'PING
,ppr.
1.
a. Weak; feeble; sickly. [Vulgar and not in use in America.]2.
Very hot; boiling; from the sound of boiling fluids. [Used in vulgar language.]Definition 2025
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See also: pīpíng
English
Verb
piping
- present participle of pipe
Noun
piping (countable and uncountable, plural pipings)
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- the piping of a house
- An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
- An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- Piped icing on a cake.
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
Adjective
piping (not comparable)
- High-pitched.
- His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.