Pipestem
(Pipe"stem`) n. The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.
Took a long reed for a pipestem.
Longfellow. Pipestone
(Pipe"stone`) n. A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
Pipette
(Pi*pette") n. [F., dim. of pipe.] A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the
middle, and usually graduated, — used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
Pipevine
(Pipe"vine`) n. (Bot.) The Dutchman's pipe. See under Dutchman.
Pipewort
(Pipe"wort`) n. (Bot.) Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft
grass-like leaves.
Piping
(Pip"ing) a. [From Pipe, v.]
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 (Zoöl.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina,
esp. G. tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck. — Piping
frog (Zoöl.), 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.
Piping
(Pip"ing), n.
1. A small cord covered with cloth, — used as trimming for women's dresses.
2. Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.
3. 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.
Pipistrel
(Pi*pis"trel Pip`i*strelle") n. [F. pipistrelle, It. pipistrello.] (Zoöl.) A small European bat (Vesperugo
pipistrellus); — called also flittermouse.
Pipit
(Pip"it) n. [So named from its call note.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small singing
birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidæ. They strongly resemble the true
larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks,
and pipit larks.
The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis); the tree pipit, or tree lark (A. trivialis); and the rock pipit, or sea
lark (A. obscurus) are well-known European species. The common American pipit, or brown lark, is
Anthus Pensilvanicus. The Western species (A. Spraguei) is called the American skylark, on account
of its musical powers.
Pipkin
(Pip"kin), n.[Dim. of Pipe.] A small earthen boiler.
