*pip*

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 drone; the third, or chanter, gives the melody. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is called a mouth blowpipe when used with the mouth; but for both chemical and industrial purposes, it is often worked by a bellows or other contrivance. The common mouth blowpipe is a tapering tube with a very small orifice at the end to be inserted in the flame. The oxyhydrogen blowpipe, invented by Dr. Hare in 1801, is an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, taken from separate reservoirs, in the proportions of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen, are burned in a jet, under pressure. It gives a heat that will consume the diamond, fuse platinum, and dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blowgun; a blowtube. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. --
Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Catcall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a pipe{ 3 } for smoking tobacco with a bowl made from a corncob. [ PJC ]

n. A pipe used for carrying off surplus water. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe for forcing into the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a hardy deciduous American vine (Aristolochia durior) having large, heart-shaped leaves and bearing brownish-purple flowers which have their calyx tubes curved like the bowl of a tobacco pipe. Formerly classified as Aristolochia Sipho.
Syn. -- pipe vine, Aristolochia macrophylla, Aristolochia durior. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. 'epi`pedos on the ground, level ('epi` + pe`don ground) + -metry. ] (Geom.) The mensuration of figures standing on the same base. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + peripheral. ] (Physiol.) Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + petal. ] (Bot.) Borne on the petals or corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. épiphanie, L. epiphania, Gr. 'epifa`nia (sc. &unr_;), for 'epifa`neia appearance, fr. 'epifai`nein to show forth; 'epi` + fai`nein to show. See Fancy. ] 1. An appearance, or a becoming manifest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + pharyngeal. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes. -- n. An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Epi- + pharynx. ] (Zoöl.) A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'epifw`nhma, fr. 'epifwnei^n to mention; 'epi` + fwnei^n to speak. ] (Rhet.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Epiphonema. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'epifora`, fr. 'epife`rein to bring to or upon; 'epi` + fe`rein to bring. ] 1. (Med.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a covering, lid, fr. &unr_; to block up. ] (Zoöl.) A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or estivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'epi` + fy`llon leaf + spe`rma seed. ] (Bot.) Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns. Harris (1710). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'epi` + fy`llon leaf. ] (Bot.) Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.

{ } (Anat.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epiphyses [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi`fysis, fr. 'epify`ein to grow upon; 'epi` upon + fy`ein to grow. ] (Anat.) (a) The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis. (b) The cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland. See Pineal gland, under Pineal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Pertaining to an epiphyte. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'epi` upon + fyto`n plant, &unr_; to grow: cf. F. épiphyte. ] 1. (Bot.) An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

{ } a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte. -- Ep`i*phyt"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Epiplastra [ Pref. epi- + plastron. ] (Anat.) One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + pleural. ] (Anat.) Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., reproof, fr. Gr. &unr_; , fr. &unr_; to strike at, reprove; 'epi` + &unr_; to strike. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., connection, from Gr. &unr_; a plaiting together, fr. &unr_; to plait or braid in; 'epi` upon + &unr_; to twist, plait. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., “He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the epiploön. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epiploa [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Anat.) See Omentum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the epipodium of Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epipodialia [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_;, dim. of &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Anat.) One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Epipodium. ] (Zoöl.) The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epipodia [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Zoöl.) One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Opt.) Producing, or relating to, epipolism or fluorescence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a surface; 'epi` + pe`lein to be. ] (Opt.) See Fluorescence. [ R. ] Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Changed to the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light. [ R. ] Stokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_; wing. So called because above the wing of the sphenoid. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. -- n. The epipteric bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + pterygoid. ] (Anat.) Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n. An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the epipubis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Epipubes [ NL., epi- + pubis. ] (Anat.) A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Music) A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and those of wood triangular or square. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]