n. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the
v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]
To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.),
n. One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis
n. A pole used to display a flag. [ PJC ]
n. A person who sits for an extended period of time on top of a flagpole or other high column; -- a publicity stunt performed for various reasons. [ PJC ]
He [ Shipwreck Kelly ] was the great
The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen. Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom. This was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the Christian equivalent of a
n. A pen or sty for hogs. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita pearl, Gr. &unr_;, prob. of Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and cf. the analogous names Tomtit, and Jackdaw. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of the genus
☞ The common European magpie (Pica pica, or Pica caudata) is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie (Pica Hudsonica) is very similar. The yellow-belled magpie (Pica Nuttalli) inhabits California. The blue magpie (Cyanopolius Cooki) inhabits Spain. Other allied species are found in Asia. The Tasmanian and Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white magpie (Gymnorhina organicum), the black magpie (Strepera fuliginosa), and the Australian magpie (Cracticus picatus). [ 1913 Webster ]
Magpie lark (Zool.),
Magpie moth (Zool.),
n. A pen, or sty, for pigs. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Arch.)